Sil:t CO:\lPTO~ RI<:AllE, Kni;;ht of the Royal Octk. First Baronet, Thiration. (1G2G-79). (From the orighal portrait by l\Irs. Beale, in the possession of the late Sir John Chan Jo, Reade, Bart.)

A RECORD OF THE REDES

OF BARTON COURT, BERKS;

WITH A SHORT PRECIS OF OTHER LINES OF THE NAME.

BY COMPTON READE.

(To WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE READES OF ROSSENARRA BY

R. READE MACMULLEN, ESQ.)

Domus exiUs.-HoRACE.

The Hist01·y of is the history of the famiiies.-GENERAL J. MEREDITH READ.

HEREFORD:

JAKEMAN AND CARVER, HIGH TOWN.

1899.

TO

SIR GEORGE COMPTON READE,

NINTH BARONET OB' THE

THIRD CREATION·;

HERBERT VINCENT READE

OF lPSDEN, ESQUIRE ;

AND TO

SIR GEORGE EGERTON DASHWOOD, BART.,

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE READES OF BROCKET HALL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE. Preface 1 Introduction ... 3 The Main Line 7 5ir Thomas Reade, Knight 18 Issue of Sir Thomas Reade by Mary Brocket 26 Issue of Thomas Reade by Mary C,,rnewall 40 The Shipton Line 50 The Line 'to 1775 61 The Ipsden Line from 1775 72 The Brocket Line 92 The American Line 104 The W1ilsh Reades 119 The Boarstal Redes 120 The Line of the Chief Justice 121 The Redes of Shipden, Norfolk 121 Reade of Wrangle 122 Reade of Faccombe 122 Reade of Blackwood 123 Reade of Eaton, Cheshire 125 Reade of The New Foresb 125 Read of Wanborough and Crowood, Wilts ... 126 Reade of Alderholt Park 126 Rede of Nether Walloppe, Rants 126 Reade or Rede of Sutton Manfield (alias Mandeville}, Wilts 126 Reade of Yate 127 Reade of 127 Read of The Ulose, Morpeth 127 Reed of East Cherton ... 127 Reede of Fenham 127 Reed of The Cragg and Elsdon 128 Reed of The Old Town (Alderton) 128 Reed of Heathpool and Hoppen 128 Rede of Ringstead, Norfolk 129 Read of Wickford, Essex 129 Reade of Marcham, Berks 129 Read of Union Park 130 Reade of Wood Park, Galway 130 The two Bishops of 130 The Reades of Rossenarra 132 TABLE OF ROYAL DESCENTS.

(]) From Alexander King of Scotland, with cousinship to Queen . page 10 (2) From John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III. :J-1. (3) From King John (with the bar sinister (?) ).... 28 (4) From John of Gaunt. 29 (5) From Edward I. 44 (6) From "The Fair Maid of ," gmnddaughter of Edward I .... 74 (7) From Edward I. 75 (8) ]'rom Edward I. by Margaret of France. 76 (9) From Edward I. by Eleanor of Castile. pages 76-77 (10) From Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland. 77-78 page 78 (11) From Joan De Valence, niece of Edward I. ... } (footnote) (12) From Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of all . pages 79-80 (13) From King John and Prince Llewellyn. 80-81 (14) From Edward I. 81-82 (15) From Luuis, second son of King John of Jerusalem and Sicily. µage 82 (16) From John of Gaunt. 83

{l ) Quadruple descent from Henry III. 91 :~~i9 l (20} (21) From Isabel, daughter of William The Lion.* ... pages 107-108 (22) From Robert Bruce.* ... page 108 (23) From Rhodri-Mawr, King of all Wales (896, A.D.).* ... pages 110-113 (24) From Charlemagne. ... pages 139-140 *Amt:rican line only. PREFACE.

HE origin of this volume is as follows :-On his retirement from the Civil Service T of India in r86o, the late Edward Anderdon Reade, C.B., being then resident at Ipsden, devoted his leisure hours to local topography and family genealogy, eventually presenting the results of these researches in MS. to the Bodleian Library. Some years later General John Meredith Read, successively Consul General for U.S.A. at Paris, Consul for Germany, and Ambassador at the Court of Athens, instituted further and more extensive researches, which embraced the pedigrees alike of the line known as of Barton Court with their alliances, and of all other lines of the name however spelt. I had inserted in 1887 certain genealogical details, supplied by my father, the late Mr. Compton Reade of Orsett Hall, in a memoir of Charles Reade, D.C.L., and although as regards some particulars these proved to be erroneous, in others they threw light on the family story. The result was a prolonged correspondence with General Meredith Read, which terminated in 1893 by a handsome proposal on his part that I would join him in compiling a Record of the Redes. We set to work, and he placed his researches at my disposal. It was evident at a glance that he had expended a vast amount of money, labour, and time. The wills he had collected alone numbered several hundreds. He had ransacked the Kirtlington Muniments, a mine of information respecting the family in the 16th and 17th centuries. He had carefully analysed our own Ipsden Muniments. He had consulted the late Sir Bernard Burke and the Herald's College. There remained, with other details, the part we played in the Civil War; and by the advice of Professor S. R. Gardiner, my uncle Captain Allen F. Gardiner's nephew, Mr. Firth of Balliol was requested to search on our behalf the Civil War Tracts and other authorities of the period. In consequence we discovered the capture of Sir Thomas Reade, the three occasions on which he entertained King Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria at Barton Court, and the fact of this home of the family having witnessed the last farewell of the Royal husband and wife. We further learnt that Barton Court served as ambush for the Royal troops on the occasion of the last attempt to capture Abingdon in 1646, but we have failed to ascertain the date of its siege and demolition-albeit, it would seem almost certain that this followed immediately upon the abortive attack organised by Prince Rupert. Other details of interest were collected by our joint exertions from various sources, more particularly a number of Royal Descents, supplied mainly by my cousin H. F. J. Vaughan of Humphreston, Esq., to whom my cordial acknowledgments are here gratefully rendered. Unfortunately in the autumn of 1894, General J. Meredith Read's attention being diverted in another direction, the work was temporarily postponed. At the close of r 896, this great soldier and diplomatist passed away suddenly in the prime of life, to our deep sorrow, for he was one of the most amiable and magnanimous of men, and withal both a scholar and a genealogist. My feeling was that the labour already expended should not be wasted, and hence with the sanction of Mrs. Meredith Read I resumed the task which had been so unhappily interrupted, having been accorded the aid of Mr. T. Turner, the General's Secretary, who has been most obliging, and indeed indefatigable in searching the voluminous MSS. stored at Paris. Here however I was met by a crux in limine. So far as our collaboration had gone I had been able to master most details of the English 2 A RECORD OF THE REDES. branches, but of the American line, including the link between Sir Charles, son of Richard, the younger brother of Sir Thomas Reade, and Colonel who emigrated to Maryland, I had only a skeleton outline. This, therefore, is all that I have been able to present in the following pages ; but I must add that the late estimable General went exhaustively into the whole subject with my uncle Charles, who was not only an author of eminence, but a barrister also of Lincoln's Inn, and on a memorable occasion won a case before the . He was so thoroughly satisfied as to the tie which binds the American and English branches together as to have written in The Graphic a memorial notice at considerable length of General Meredith Read's father, Chief Justice Read, thereby both claiming and acknowledging a relationship, of which he felt justly proud, the more so perhaps because he was so warm an admirer of the American character-its generosity and its true manhood. To proceed-shortly after I commenced single handed, Leadam's Domesday of Inclosures was published, and I learnt to my surprise that the reiterated statement of the Redes having been settled at Beedon in 1438 was false. At once with the active co-operation of Herbert V. Reade, Esq., the present Squire of Ipsden, the MS. and published pedigrees were thoroughly overhauled, with the result that I am able to boast the elimination of various fictions, whereof some originated nearly two centuries ago ; and furthe~ that the volume represents a verified, if a curtailed, record. To the Barton line I have added a precis of the principal other lines bearing the name, however spelt, and Mr. R. Reade Macmullen has contributed by way of appendix a pedigree of the Reades of Rossenarra. I must express my further indebtedness to Dr. Marshall of Sarnesfield Park-Rouge Croix Herald; to Rev. W. D. Macray, Fellow of Magdalen and of the Bodleian and to Mr. Parker also of the Bodleian ; to R. Reed Lewis, Esq., of Bedford_; Thomas Reade, Esq., of Tettenhall ; T. Mellard Reade, Esq., of Blundellsands ; the late Dr. Hussey, of Oxford; T. L. Reed, Esq., of Crow Hall; Miss Reed, of Old Town, Otterburn ; H. L. Reade, Esq., of Congleton ; Mrs. Moutray Read ; Lord Cobham ; W. Baildon, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; Rev. Dr. F. G. Lee; Mrs. Baldwyn Childe, of Kyre Park; Mrs. Reed, of Dringthorpe, H. Baskerville, Esq., of Crowsley Park; T. M. Davenport, Esq., of Headington, Mr. Kirk, of the Record Office; S. J. Reade, Esq., of Reade House, Flixton; Walter Crouch, Esq., and many others. I can only trust, in conclusion, that the book may prove of interest to the subscribers, for whose support I avow myself deeply indebted. It represents much labour covering many years, but to me it has been a labour of love, and I would believe also to those friends and relations who have so kindly and willingly rendered me assistance. COMPTON READE Kenchester Rectory, July, z899. INTRODUCTION.

"Procedente autem tempore, Britannire post Brittones et Pictos, tertiam Scotorum nationem in Pictorum parte recepit; qui, duce Reuda, de Hibernia progressi, vel amicitia vel ferro sibimet inter eos sades quas hactenus habent, vidicarunt; a quo videlicet duce usque hodie Dalreudini vocantur, nam lingua eorum ' daal ' part em significat." Bede, Ecel. Hist., I., 1. "Post cujus [i.e. Fergusii] vero regnmque quorundam aliorum decessum, abnepos ejus Reuther, quern Beda Readam vocat, ad regimen regni Scotorum Albionensium succedens, ex terris Britonum quasdam ei<:tremi lim1tis µrovincias versus Boream suo dominio subjugare .... Ubi procursu modici temporis cum suis residens parti cuidam regionis qua fixit tentoria de nomine suo .Retherdale, Anglice Riddisdale, inditum est nomen hodiernum."-.F'ordun Scotichronicon, lib. 13, capp. 12, 13. HE Northumbrian Redes are of Royal origin. Cairbre Riada, according to O'Hart's T Irish pedigrees, was son of Conaire, who was the son of Mor. He established the Kingdom of Dalriada on the western coast of Scotland, and nine sovereigns of the Dalriadic dynasty ruled in succession. The ninth, termed by Bede Reuda, and by Fordun Reuther, whose Christian name is also stated to have been /Edan, after his defeat by Kenneth settled in Redesdale, where he founded a clan. The name of Sir Percy Rede is mentioned in Scott's Rokeby, and the seal of Sir Thomas De Rede, a chevron between three palms displayed, was dug up recently in the Park at Chillingham, the date assigned to it being circa. 1300. In the list of Northumbrian gentry returned by the Commissioners of Hen. 6th in 1433, the name of Thomas De Rede de Redesdale occurs-vide Fuller's Worthies, Vol. 2, p. 196. John Rede, Serjeant-at-law, who by his marriage with Cecilia, daughter of Griffin Marmyon, acquired the Manors of Stoke Marmyon and , Oxon, where they lie buried, M.I., is alleged to have been his brother. He was M.P. for Oxon r 388 and 1391, and founder of the Boarstal line. Edward Rede* served as Sheriff for Oxon and

* Fuller's assumption that Edward borA for arms gules, a saltire between four garbs or, by his own admission amounts to no more than guesswork, while the statement of the published pedigrees, that he held the Manor of Beedon, is false. Lyson's Brittannia, p. 239, says: "Beedon was formerly one of the seats of the De Lisle family. Alice De Lisle had the Royal license to make a park at Beedon in 1336." Beedon then passed onwards thus: THOMAS 4th Lord Berkeley=MARGARET, dau. of Gerald De Lisle (d. 1417). I (d. 1395). I The Lady ELIZABETH BERKELEY= RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, Earl of Warwick. I Lady ALIANORA BEAUCHAMP = (1) DUKE OF SOMERSET. ,.--~I (2) THOMAS, Lord de Roos. The Lady JOHANNA BEAUFORT=(l) LORD HOWETHE. (2) RICHARD FRYE. (See Calendar Inq. p. morteni, Record Office, 1828; Fosbrooke's Berkeley MSS.; Leadam's Doomsday of Inclosu1·es (where Beaufort is spelt Beyford); Letters and Papers of Hen. 7th, edited by Brewer and Gairdn0r, Vol. I. 347, Vol. III. 55). At the decease of Lady Johanna Beaufort, in 1518, the manor was leased by the Urown at a rental of £17. Hs. 4d. to Robert Sewey (Vol. III. 102); and (Vol. III. 209), May 13th, 7th Hen. 8th in consideration of surrender of annuity of £100, a grant in snrvivorsbip was made to Sir William ~'itzwilliam, Mabel his wife, and their eldest son. Lastly (Close Rolls, 1544), Hen. 8th for £216 granted to William Thomas "the Manor of Beddon (sie) late parcel of the possessi0ns of the Countesse of Somerset." In 1562 the Manors of Beedon and Stanmore with the advowson were the property of Anne, widow of Thomas Rede, of Barton Cot1rt (KirUington Muniments), and this is the earliest mention of Beedon as an est"te of the Reade family. It was aliened by Sir John Chandos Reade, 7th Bart., 3rd Creation, in 1857 tu Lord Overstone. 4 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Berks in 1438 and 1450, hut his name is absent from the list of of either shire in the Commissioners' return for 1433, and it seems more than likely that Edward is an error for Edmund, i.e. of Boarstal, whose vast wealth points him out as a probable Sheriff, and who did not receive the accolade until 1460. Almost contemporary with Edward (or Edmund) the Sheriff, was William Rede, who

served as Mayor of Reading in 1452-3, 1453-41 1454-5, 1455-6, 1456.-7, 1464-5, 1467-8, and 1469-70 He also represented the Borough of Reading in the Parliaments of 1453, 1459, 1463, 1470. ( Reading Records, 39, 40, &c., &c. Parliamentary Returns. Coates' Reading). Of him otherwise nothing is known.* In the registers of St. Helen's, Abingdon, occurs the name of Wyllyam Rede, t buried 1st January, 1541. We find also the name of Elizabeth Rede who died in 1540, and of Margery Reade who married John Morgayne, in the same Registers. Research has not as yet found a link to connect the Redes of Barton Court with Redesdale. Wotton, 1727, assigned a Northumbrian origin to the family, and this legend has been iterated for the past 170 years. Again, the data thus far fail to verify con­ sanguinity with the Redes of Boarstal, whose ancestor John Rede, M.P., and Serjeant­ at-law, was apparently Northumbrian. The following descent however is suggestive:- JoHN CATER, of Letcombe = MARGARET, daughter of John Audelett, whose wife, Catherine, was" cousin" I to Thomas Rede, of Barton. I I \VrLLIAM = DOROTHY, daughter of Thomas Hoo, MARGERY= WILLIAM HYDE, and and THOMAS REDE, of Barton = THOMAS REDE. of Boarstal, in ANNE, daughter of 'fhomas Hoo. his will styles William Hyde "my brother." But Thomas, of Barton, and Thomas, of Boarstal, were not the same person. From the above it would appear that Thomas Rede, the first of the Barton Court line mentioned in the Harl. MSS. ( 108 r, being the Visitation of Berks, r 5 66, augmented by W. Smith, Rouge Dragon in 1602, and by John Withy, 1628) was connected with Reading, although, prior to his acquisition of the Great Manor of Barton, resident in Abingdon. His sons-in-law, Martyn, Vachell, and Beke were all Reading men, and Thomas Beke, 1460, immediately preceded William Rede as M.P. for that borough, which was represented by Thomas Vachell in three Parliaments of Hen. 8th, and in the first Parliament of Mary. Thomas Beke also succeeded William Rede in the Mayoralty in 1458-9, while a John Rede (presumably of Wolley Park) was Mayor in 1533. Again, Sir F. Englefield, guardian to Thomas Reade, the younger, was of Englefield, and Plowden, Thomas Rede's executor, of , both being near Reading, while Audelett came from Woburn by Maidenhead.

*In the will of Thomas Rede of Redyng, 1502, occurs a suggestive clause: '· Eliz.a beth, my wife, shall hav~ (with }enements situate in Reading) all pastures, woods, and underwoods lying .m Shynyngfeld, Berks (Shmfield). Now, Edward Martyn, of Shinfield, was one of the trustees of Anne, widow of Thomas Rede, of Barton, in 1556, and subsequently became her son-in-law. tThe published pedigrees affirm that he was father of Thomas Rede, of Barton Court ( Vide Chapter I.), and Edmonston, Wotton, Betharn, and others, assigni>d him for wife Dorothy, daug~ter of Nicholas Beaumont, of Cole Orton. Inasmuch as Nicholas was not born until after the decease of this \Vyllyam, and Dorothy his daughter married a William Rede, of Barton-on-Humber, this allegation is transparently erroneous. Burke has altered Dorothy to the daughter of John Beaumont, of Orton on-the-Hill, but if John had a daughter Dorothy, there is no evidence to show that she married this Wyllyam, or that he was father of Thomas Rede. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 5

All points to kinship between Thomas Rede of Barton and William Rede, M.P. for Reading. The presence of the former in Abingdon is fully accounted for by the circumstance of John Audelett, whose wife-his cousin-was his great benefactress, having been lessee of the great manor of Barton under Rowland, the last abbot. Although the Boarstal Cartulary does not mention William Rede, M.P., it is more than probable that he was a grandson of John Rede, M.P., of Checkendon, a manor which lies only eight miles west of Reading. It seems possible therefore that the tradition which united the Redes of Barton Court with the Eoarstal line, and through them with the Dalriadic Redes of Northumberland, may have a basis in actual fact. The difference of arms counts for nothing, inasmuch as Thomas Reade (2) of Barton Court in 1597 obtained a fresh grant, while it is noteworthy that this coat-" gules, a saltire between four garbs, or "-is almost identical with that of the ancient House of Troughen in Redcsdale. · Whatever may have been the origin of the Redes of Barton Court, their advancement in the middle of the sixteenth century was due to the benevolence of their relatives John Audelett* and Catherine his wife. In 1509 [Ipsden Deeds in the Bodleian l he purchased the Manors of Ipsden from William Cottesmore for £360. These manors had been the dowry of Agnes Cottesmore on her marriage with Sir Edmund Rede of Boars ta!, and at her decease formed the subject of a law suit between Sir E. and the Cottesmores. On 27th June, 1535 John Audelett conveyed the manors in trust to William Hydet of South Denchworth, Thomas Rede, afterwards of Barton Ccurt, and George Owen, M. D., for the use of Catherine his wife. In his will, dated October 4th, 1533, he desires to be buried before Our Lady of Pity in the new chapel within the Conventual Church of Our Blessed Lady at Abingdon, "if my Lord Abbot and Covent (sic) be so pleased." Bequests to Sarum Cathedral. ffigh altar of St. Nicholas, Abingdon. "Every light in St. N." The Light of St. Edmund, and snndry lights of Uffington Church, of Cumnor, and other churches. To the Vicars of St. Helens, Abingdon, and Uffi.ngton, for tithe forgotten. To his servants, each by name. To Edward Hynderlinge, "my wife's kinsman." To Kateryn, dau. of Thomas Rede, and William Ballar, "my kinsman," who is to have the choice of the farm he held under the Abbot of Malmesbury, or that under Master Profest (Provost) of Eton. His wife Catherine and Sir Thomas Englefield, exors, the latter to have £20. To his wife the Manors of Saltmarshe and Henbery, Glos., and the Manors of Ipsden. Witnesses, Dr. George Owen and Thomas Rede. Proved March 27th, 1537. He died March 26th, 1536. His heir at law was William Ballar, who took the residue of his manors and lands. In the Inq.p. moi·tem held at Marlborough, May 29th, 1540, it appears that this William, described as of N orthstoke, Oxon, brother to Johanne, mother of the said John Audeletb, and then over 60 years of age, had aliened the Manor of Idmyston with lands in Stratton S. Margaret, which he had inherited from John, to Catherine Audeletb, Thos. Rede and Anne his wife. In a similar Inq., held at Kettering, Ballar was shown to have aliened to the same parties the Manor of

* The former, among his vast possessions, owned the Manor of Denford, Northan ts, which (vide Cal. lnq. p. mortem, Vol. II.) in the reign of Ed ward III. belonged to Hugo De Audeley, Earl of , from whom it passed to Margaret his daughter, Countess of Stafford. In the reign of Henry VI. half the manor belonged to the Duke of Buckingham and half to Richard ChamberJayne. As "Audelett" is apparently a variant of Audeley, this is suggestive. t William Hyde, of S. Denchworth, was Sheriff for Berks and Oxon, 1551. He died May 2nd, 1557, and his wife Margery Cater, June 27th, 1652. In S. Dench worth churchyard is a gravestone with this rhyme on a brass plate: Here lye we two enclosed now in erth not far apart, Husband and wife, whiles we had lyfe, whom only death could parte, My name 'William, hers Marjery, by surname called Hyde, Which n,tme accord tons li,e and dead whom now the earth doth hyde; While we dyd lyrn, God g,we us grace to harbour, clothe, and hyde '!.'he naked p,)(Jr folkes: Injuries we did defend am] hyde; Now being dead we crave mercy of God, that He will hyde Hys face from our synnes, and with his arme He from the Devyll us hyde ; And that with saints and happy soules, our sely soules may byde In heaven with God: good folkes we pray to pray to God for Hyde. 6 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Denford with lands in Ringstede, Wold, and Raunds. And in the Inq. p. m. of the aforesaid Thomas Rede, who deceased at Barton Court, 1556, it was shown that Bollar had aliened lands, inherited from John Audelett, to the same parties in Trinity term, 1538, these lands being situate in Sonningwell, Long ,vittenham, Stanmore, Beedon, Ballyng, Fauler, Uflington, Kingston Lysley, Abingdon, and Wantage. To this long catalogue must be added the Manor of Dunstew, Oxon, which Thomas Rede took under Catherine Audelett's will, dated November 27th, 1539. In that will Catherine desires to be buried "in the gild within the Church of St. Eleynes* which I have builded." Bequests to the Mother Church of Sarum, and to the High Altar of St. Elyne's." "At the time of my buryal £66 13s, 4d. to be disposed for the wealth of my soul, and as much at my moneth's mynde." "At my 12 moneth's mynde £20." Bequests to the poor of Abingdon for 10 years. 40s. a year for the repose of her soul and that of her husband for 20 years. Bequests to Joan and Margaret How (Hoo), cousins; Alys Rede, £20; Mary Rede, £20; Kateryn Rede and Elizabeth Rede, £66 13s. 4d. apiece; Eleanor Wroughton, £613s. 4d. "to her marriage": William Ballar, Edward Hynderlinge, William Cater, and others. Thomas Rede, "my cousin," all farms and leases. £40 to four Oxford Scholars for 10 yearn. .Residue to George Owyn,t Thomas Rede, and Thomas Ogle as executors. Dr. Lyndesay and Thomas How (Hoo), overseers, Proved January 14th, 1539-40. It will be noted that on the decease of John Audelett in 1536 his widow came into possession of the Manors of Ipsden. On November 19th, 1539, she conveyed the Manors to Martyn Lyndsay,t of Lincoln College, D.D., then Vice-Chancellor of the University, who on November 22nd empowered Stephen Fordham to take possession on his behalf; and on December 9th, 1539, reconveyed the Manors to Mrs. Audelett, with reversion at her decease to Katheryn, daughter of Thomas Rede. (Ipsden Munz'ments in the Bodlez'an). The Barton Court Record opens, therefore, with Thomas Rede in possession of the major portion of John Audelett's estates, and with his eldest daughter Katheryn-presumably Cathetine Audelett's god-daughter-endowed with the Manors of Ipsden Huntercombe and Ipsden Bassett, which alone, of all the manors held by this line, survive to the family after a lapse of nearly four centuries, Stetfortuna domus I

* This appears to have been on the south side of the Chancel, and inasmuch as it was used as a burying place for the Rede family, it became known as the Rede Chapel, or Rede aisle, and still retained that designation during the earlier part of the present century. t Alumni Oxonienses, by Jos. Foster, Vol. III., 1891, earlyseries, 1500-1714, p. 1099 :-" OWEN, George, of the Diocese of Worcester; Fellow of Merton College, 1519; M.A., 5th July, 1521; admitted B. Med. and to practise, 14th December, 1525; D. Med., 18th February, 1527-8; Guardian of Bowser Chest in winter, 1520; Physician to Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Q. Mary ; Fellow College of Physicians, 1545, President, 1553. Died 10th (or 18th) October, 1558, buried in St. Stephen, Walbrook, ." See Ath., i. 274; O.H.S., i. 120, and iv. 251; Fasti, i. 78; and Munk's Roll, i. 36. He was the physician employed at the accouchement of Queen Jane Seymour, and thus brought Kiug Edward VI. into the world. He was also a witness to the will of Hen. 8, who left him £100. Aiken's Memoirs, p. 38; Brodrick's Memorials of Merton Coll., p. 251; where it is stated that the King gave him Nun Hall St. Alban Hall. t Dr. Martyn Lyndsay matriculated under the name Bona. Anthony A. Wood mentioned that he was appointed in 1530 to search for the Articles under which Wycliffe was condemned, the King having demanded to be advertised of them. Although never Rector of Lincoln College, he became Yice-Ohancellor, and died March 2nd, 1554. CHAPTER I.

THE MAIN LINE. THOMAS died 1556)TANNE Hoo (died 1575). AGNES (living in 1556).

I I I I I TH0MAS1 MARY STONH0USE KATHERYN ELIZABETH ALICE MARIE living 1549, I (d. 1625). (m. 1546, (living 1604). (d. 1540). (1536-1607). d. 1604. d. 1603). =RICHARD BEKE s.p. TH0S. V 1\CHELL (issue). =(l) WALTER HURST, T (d. 1610). (2) EDWARD MARTYN ANNE (issue), I (I549-1565). I I I I SIR THOMAS JOHN RIOHARD=HELEN CAVE MARY=HENRY BULSTR0DE ( Vide next Chapter) s.p. (1579-1659). (1601-1623) (1583-1614). (1578-1632). (1575-1650). {1577-1605). (issue). (issue).

HOMAS REDE, or READE*, stands first in the Harleian and other MSS. as founder of , T the Barton Court line. He acquired that manor with the ancient Palace of the Abbots of Abingdon-otherwise named the "King's House,'' because the Sovereign could claim hospitality of its owner-in this wise, as is set forth in the Inq. p. mortem held at Abingdon April 13th, 1557: ".King Edward VI. was seized in fee of. the Manor of Barton, formerly belonging to the Monastery a~ Abendon, and of various lands demised to John Audelett, and by letters patent July 10th, 1 Edward VI. (1547) he granted the premises to Richard Lee, Knight. By licence of the same King a fine was levied Michaelmas, 1547, between Edmund Herman, t plaintiff, and the said Richard Lee, Knight, and Margaret, his wife, deforciants, who remised and quit-claimed the premises to Herman and his heirs. By another license of the same king a fine was levied in Easter term, 1548, between the said Thomas Rede and Anne his wife, plaintiffs, and the said Edmund Herman and Agnes his wife, deforciants, who remised and quit-claimed to the said Thomas and Anne. The said Richard Lee, Knight, by his writing dated February 12th, 1550, for the sum of £40 13s. 4d. released the premises to Rede and wife." The great Manor of Harton consisted of the following :-Alderne, Inny, Pomney, Stokey, Gosey, Bartoun, Brewarney, Brislay Hille, Barrowe Hille, Sudbrooke, Crowe Close, Conynger, Myre Close, Pounde Close, Straye Close, Bowre Close, Box Hille, Barton Pece, the 20 acres lying and being in Barton, with the usual Manorial privileges, including spiritual as well as temporal appurtenances. This Manor, originally the property of the Abbey of Abingdon, the last Abbot (Thomas Rowland) and Convent gave, granted, and surrendered to King Henry VIII., with the late Monastery and tithes, on the 9th day of February, in the 29th year of that Monarch's reign, i.e., 1538. This grant was further endorsed by a statute passed 28th April, 1541. The bulk of his other real estate is further set forth in the same Inq. p. mortem, as numerous messuages, lands, &c., in Sonningwell, Long Wittnam, Stanmere, Byddon (Beedon), Ballyng, Foller, Uffington, Kingston Lysley, Abingdon, and Wanting, otherwise Wantage.-Vide sujJra Introduction.

* His name first occurs in a conveyance, date 1536, by John Audelett, then of Abingdon, but previously of Woburn or Noborne, Bucks, to himself, William Hyde aud George Owen, M.D., of the Manors of Ipsden Huntercombe and Ipsden Bassett in trust for his wife Catherine, wherein he is styled gentleman. (Ipsden Mun., Bodleian Library). But in the Exchequer Record, "Pelles of Receipt," 1553, under Berks, he is described as Thomas Reade, armiger, being one among a minority thus qualified, the majority being simply generosi. Therein he is entered as having paid £10 fine to escape the accolade. (Herald and Genealogist, V. 19). t Nich. Herman of Middleton Stoney was for Oxon 1664. 8 A RECOR.D OF THE RE.DES

He was seized, moreover, of other estates by a similar joint-purchase with his cousin Catherine Audelett in survivorship, viz., the Manor of Idmyston, Wilts., with lands in Stratton St. Margaret ; tbe Manor of Denford, with lands in Raunds, Ringstead, and Wold, Northants; and the Manor of Dunstew,* Oxon. He also acquired by purchase the lease of the Great Tithes of Chiselbampton and , Oxon. Three years before his death, i.e., in 1553, he was elected Governor of Christ's Hospital in Abingdon. Ashmole, writing in 1668, states that he was High Sheriff of Berks. This is erroneous. ( Rawlinson MSS., b. 8I,jol. I7. b). Thomas Rede is first mentioned as having purchased a messuage at Dunstew, in an instrument dated 2nd Oct., 1545. In I 54 7 he and his son Thomas obtained a grant of another messuage at Dunstew, and additional lands there in 1548, 1550, 1553, and 1554, further property at Dunstew being procured by Anne, his widow, in 1557, 1563, and 1565.-(Kirtlington Park Muniments). In the Oxford Diocesan Registry is the following entry :-1554-Thomas Reade Gentleman, presents James Pollarde, M.A., to the Vicarage of Dunstew, 26th June.

Thomas Rede Wds buried 27th April, 1556, in the Rede Aisle, St Helen's Church Abingdon, Berks.-(St. Helen's Parish Registers). His initials t were on the south porch. His wife survived him 19 years, dying in 1575. The published Pedigrees have hitherto stated that Thom1s Rede was living in 1575, whereas it was his widow who did not die until the close of that year. As she was styled " Lord of Dunstew" the error is easily explamed. Thomas Rede's will. dated 16th April, 1556, and proved 2yd June following, in C.P.C., opens thus: "In the name of God, Amen. The 16th daie of Aprill in the yere of Or Lorde God a thousande fyve hundredth, fiftie and sixe. I, Thomas Reade of Abyngdon in the Countie of Berks gentilm::111, hole of mynde and of good and parfytt memory (thanks and prayse to the Almightie God) callinge to my remembrance that deathe to all creatures is a thing moste certayne, and the hower thereof most nncertayne. And mynding to sett, ordre and direction for and concerning my go"des and chattalls. &c., &c., &c, * * *. Item, I bequeathe my soule t;, Almightie God my Maker and Creatonr and to Jesu Christe his Sonne my Saviour and Redeeruer and to all the holye Cornpaine of Heaven, and my bo,lye if I dye in ..\ bingdon to be l>uryed in St. Elyn's Ohurche nighe the place wher my doughter Alice ys buried. Item, I bequeathe to the Mother Ohurche of Sarum xii d. Item, I bequeathe to the High Aulter in Saynt Elyns iii.s. iiii.d." He desires to be buried near his daughter, Alice, who was buried 22nd Feb., 1540. He wishes "yrnploye,l aboute my funeralls and moneths mynde fourtie pounds." He mentions his cousin, Agnes Newbery. [The arms of Newbery or Newbury, Berks, are :-Sa., three palets, erm._, "n a canton, arg. a lion, _ramp., az. Crest-A demi eagle displayed or.-(Bm·ke's General Armory).] He gives "Tenna pounds to my Sister Agnes." He also remembers Thomas Carnby or Camby, Edward Carnby, and granddsnghter Anne, daughter of Kath. Vachel\. (A contemporary Deed from John Ohaundeler of Uunstew to Thomas Rede of Abendon, Gentilman, mentions lands of the i»tter in the tenure of Thomas Carn by), Further, '' I will that Mmie my duughter shall be paide the twentie pounds that Mastres A wdelett dyd beq uethe to her and in consideracion t.hat she ye said Marye ys joynt purchaser wt me of dyv's landes tenements and hereditaments and soe thereby is sufficiently advauncyd I will to her no more goodes cattells or landes." (Mary Rede afterwards m. Edward Martyn of Shinfield, who is also mentioned in the Will.) He gives to Katheryn Vachel!, his dau., ten pounds. To his dau., Elizabeth Beake or Belrn, wife of Richard Beke, LorJ of Whiteknights, Berks, he gives only five pounds, having previously been mosb liberal towards her. He addg: "I give tenne pounds pc'll of the fourtie pounds Richard Beke oweth me, if it may be had, to the bayliffe of Abingdon towar,ls the ereccion of a free Scole there in Abingdon. Item I give fiye pounds to be imployed to the amending of the highway between Abyngdon and Sugworthe. Item, if John Fetiplace shall repaye ye money he hath had of me in mortgage of his lande then I will and give the same money to Thomas Reade my sonne." He makes liberal provision for his wife; and beyond this names five friends who are

*John Andelett purchased the Manor of Dunstew in 1528 of the suppressed Abbey of Merton. tAbingdon contains two churches, St. Helen and St. Nicholas. Over the south porch of the former on a shield supported by an angel are the letters "T.R.," and beneath the date 1543,-(Beauties of England and Wales, p. 163.) A RECORD OF THE REDES. 9

charged to receive from her a fee simple in certain estates which had been settled upon her for life, and to release the same after her death to her son, Thomas. The persons thus named were "Thomas Howe (or Hoo), Esquire, Chrystofer Lye (or Lee) gentilman, Edward Martyn, Gentilman, Barnard Felde,* and John Okeham the younger." He gives all his other estate to his son, Thomas. In case of the latter's death before the age of twenty-one, he directs the estates to be divided into three equal parts : one of these parts is then to be divided between his widow, Anne Rede, and his daughter, Elizabeth, now married to Richard Beke, the other two parts are to be given to his daughter, Katheryn, wife of Thomas Vachel!, and to his unmarried dau., Marie Rede, afterwards the wife of Edward Martyn. He appoints Thomas Vachell sole Executor. Sir ,t and Edmund Plowden, "Gentil­ man," are made overseers of his will. He commits his son Thomas to the care of Sir Francis Englefield, to whom he, leaves a handsome bequest, and desires that his son may be kept at school.:j: The Witnesses are: Edm, Plowden, Thomas Vaohell, John Okeham, Fraunces Cressett, Thomas Kete, Stephyn Postarne.

Thomas Rede's wife, ANNE, was the daughter of Thomas Hoo, Esq., of The Hoo, Paul's Walden, Herts [see Rawlinson's MS. b. 81, folio 17b], who married the daughter and co-heiress of John Newman, Esq., of Hatfield, and died IIth June, 1551, son of Thomas Hoo, Esq., of The Hoo, who was son of Sir Thomas Hoo, one of the Knights present at Agincourt, and brother of Thomas, Lord Hoo and Hastings, whose daughter Anne, by Sir , Knt., her first husband, was great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth. In an award made 5th Elizabeth (1563), by Edmund Plowden, Anthony Bustard, and John Cupper, between Anne Rede, widow of Thomas Rede, and Christopher Castell, of Dunstew, Anne Rede's right to the Lordship of Dunstew is fully recognized, and her son and heir is mentioned as Thomas Rede, Gent., whose lands are in the tenure of Thomas Carnby. (Kirt. Park.. ilfun.) The Court Rolls of the Manor of Dunstew contain the rolls of the Manorial Court of" Anne Rede, vidure," in part, i.e., from 1560 to 157 5; and in 1562 the Rectory and Patronage of Beedon belonged to Anne Rede, widow. She was buried in the Rede Aisle, at St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks, 30th October, 1 575• Will dated 25th October, 1575, proved 3rd December, 1575, in C.P.C., in which she signs herself Anne Rede. Therein she directs her body to be buried in the Rede Aisle of St. Helen's, Abingdon. To Thomas Beke she gives five pounds yearly for 30 years if he lives so Jong; to Richard Beke, the younger, twenty pounds, to be paid him yearly £5. 'I'o Anne Marten £5 to be paid at the date of her marriage, and to Dorothy, Katheryn, Mary, and Johanne, the daus. of Richard Beke, "my son in law," five pounds each, to be paid on the days of their marriage." To my cousin Anne Beke, twenty pounds, to be paid her at the date of her marriage. To Thomas Cater, "my cousin," twenty pounds, within one year of my decease. To young John Royston, my Godson, 20 shillings, and to the menservants and maidservants dwelling with me at the time of my departure, a whole year's wages.

* William Felde was witness to the will of Thomas Rede of Shinfield and Reading, 1502, t Sir Francis Englefield and Mr. Plowden, the testator's two chief personal friends, were men of mark, and on the principle noscitur a sociis it may be inferred that he in some degree shared their opinions. Both were Roman Catholics. Englefield held a post in the household of Queen Mary, and was M. P., for Berks, but on the accession of Elizabeth was attainted, fled the realm, and became a benefactor to the English College at Valladolid, where he died at a very advanced age in 1592. Edmund Plowden was M.P. for Walling-ford temp. Mary. He was a profound lawyer, styled by W oolrych "the greatest of the Serjeants," to whom Queen Elizabeth offered the Great Seal if he would conform, but "he declined to exchange his creed for high dignity." At Pensax Court, teste Woolrych, was once a treatise written by Edmund Plowden to assert the validity of Mary Queen of Scots' title to the crown. :j: The wording of this sentence may imply that Sir Francis had previously been Thomas Rede's trustee­ or "good master." "I will that he (his exor.) in p'forming this my last will maye use the advyse of my good master, Sir Frauncis Englefield, knight .... most hartely desyring him (Sir Francis) to be good master to my said son Thomas Reade." Sir Francis and Thomas Rede appear to have been about the same age, so that one could not have been guardian to the other; but Sir Francis may have been trustee of Thomas Rede's marriage settlement. IO A RECORD OF THE REDES.

From this alliance the descendants of Thomas Rede claim descent from the Kings of Scotland, with cousinship to Queen Elizabeth :- ALEXANDER, King of Scotland= SYBILL, a natural daughtier of Henry I. of England. -,-' DARNELL= Sir ALEXANDER Hoo, son of Sir Robert Hoo, by Rosamond, daughter of Lord Chelteron. ,--I SIR ROBERT Hoo = • • • I . -,- Sir ROBERT__ Hoo,I M.P., for Herts=BEATRIOE, daughter of Alexander, Count of Audeville. I Sir ROBERT,--' Hoo= HA WIES, daughter of Fulke, Lord Fitzwarren. Sir THOMAS--' Hoo= ISABEL, daughter of Sir John St. Leger, Sir wi'LLIAM Hoo= secondly, ALIOE, daughter of Sir Thomas St. Maur. I Sir THbMAS Hoo =secondly, ELIZABETH, daughter of William de Etchingham. Their granddaughter, Anne, daughter of their elder son who was created Lord Hoo and Hastings, = Sir Geoffrey Boleyn of Hever, great-grandfather of Queen Anne Boleyn, whence the ,--I Reade kinship with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth. THOMAS Hoo= DOROTHY NORWOOD. ,--I THOMAS Hoo= MAUDE, daughter of Edmond Bardolph. ,--I THOMAS,--' Hoo=a daughter of John Newman of Hatfield. ANNE Hoo = THOMAS REDE, of Barton Court, Of the above, Sir Robert Hoo acquired the Manor of Knebworth, Herts, and his son, Sir Robert, obtained a charter from Edward I. for a market and a fair there. Sir William Hoo, in 1387, assisted Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, to effect his escape to Calais ; and subsequently served in the garrison of that town under John Earl of Somerset, whose relative he married. His son, Sir Thomas Hoo, was present at Agincourt. His first wife was Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Felton, K.G., and widow of Sir Robert de Ufford. His elder son by his second wife, Sir Thomas, assisted in suppressing a rebellion in Normandy in 1442; and in 1447, having distinguished himself in the French wars, was raised to the Peerage as Lord Hoo of The Hoo, in the County of Bedford, and Hastings, of Hastings, in the County of Sussex. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Felton, and by her had a son who died without issue, vit. patr.; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wichingham, by whom he had a daughter, Anne, who married, first, Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, and became ancestress of Queen Elizabeth, and secondly, Sir Thomas Fieunes. Her son, Sir , married Lady Margaret Butler, daughter of Thomas, 7th Earl of Ormonde, and their son, Sir , was created successively Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wiltshire, and Earl of Ormonde. His wife, mother of Queen Anne Boleyn, was the Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas , K.G. From the Boleyns are descended the Earls Nelson and Kimberley, as also the families of Carew, Copley, Devenish, and Walrond. It should be added that Thomas Hoo, brother of Anne Hoo, wife of Thomas Rede, marriP.d Lucy, daughter of John Brocket, of Brocket Hall, Herts, and that John Brocket's great-grand-daughter, Ma1·y BrockAt, married Thomas Rede's grandson, Sir Thomas Reade. ARMS OF Hoo.-Quarterly, sa. and arg.; quarterly, arg, and sa.; quarterly, or and sa.; quarterly, sa. and arg., within a bordure erminois; and quarterly, sa. and arg., a bend or; were used at various times, and by various branches, The crests, at different periods, borne on a chapeau, were . I. A griffin segreaut; II. A hand holding a hautboy ; III. A bull pass., quarterly arg. and sa. The following arms are given in the Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634 (Vol. XXII. of the publications of the Harleian Society, 12, 65).-Quarterly of six: 1st-Quarterly, sa. and arg., for HOO; 2nd-Az., a fret arg., a chief gu., for ST. LEGER; 3rd-Az.; a fess between eix cross-crosslets or, for ST. OMER; 4th-Az., three dexter hands appaumee arg., for MALMAYNES; 5th-Erm., on a chief sa. three crosses patee arg., for WICHINGHAM; 6th-Erm,, a cross engr. gu,, over all a bend az., for NORWOOD. A RECORD OF THE REDES II

CREST.-A female's head and shoulders afl'ronMe ppr., crined or, banded gu. On each a crescent for difference. AUTHORITIES.-The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634 (Vol. XXII. of the pubHcations of the Harleian Society, 12, 65). The Visitations of Norfolk, 1563, 1589, and 1613 (Vol. XXXII. of the publications of the Harleian Society, p. 158). Ashmolt MS., 852, p. 157. Berry's Hertfoi·dshire Genealogies, 148, 213. Chauncy's Antiquities of Herts, 415, 510. Burke's Dormant and, Extinct Peerages. Bui·ke's General Armory, By Anne Hoo, Thomas Rede had issue one son, Thomas, of whom presently, and four daughters, Katheryn, Elizabeth, Alice, and Marie. r. KATHERYN was endowed with the manors of Ipsden Huntercombe and Ipsden Bassett, while a suitable mansion named The Grove, surrounded by a park of old oaks, was built for her at Ipsden Huntercombe. She married 5th September, 1546, at St. Mary's, Reading, THOMAS VACHELL, of Coley Park, Berks, son of the Receiver of the suppressed Abbey of Reading, and M. P. for that borough, but-notwithstanding that his father had been enriched by the spoils of the Church-a strong Papist. They had one child, a daughter, Anne, mentioned in Thomas Rede's will (1556). She died young. The early years of their married life were apparently happy. Thomas Vachel! was a great builder of pigeon-houses, and that at Ipsden House is attributed to him. But on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, he persistently refused to conform to the new ritual, and having been proclaimed recusant, forfeited two-thirds of his rental, including that which he held jure uxoris at Ipsden. An inquisition was held at Abingdon, and Thomas Reade, Katheryn's brother, was appointed Receiver for the Crown, the result being a separation between husband and wife. In the Ipsden Muniment chest is a deed dated 1595, wherein Thomas Reade on Katheryn's behalf covenants with Symons, the tenant of Ipsden Bassett Manor House, to lodge and board her-in short, this lady's union with a recusant reduced her to poverty. Subsequently a reconciliation was effected, and Mrs. Montague, Thomas' sister, joined them at Ipsden Bassett, while Sir Thomas Vachell, Thomas Vachell's nephew, obtained some slight mitigation of the punitive decree. Mr. Crawfurd (Quarterly Journal Be1·ks Archceologiaal Society) writes thus: "The salient feature of this Thomas Vachell's life is his 'recusancy,' the crime of those who could not reconcile it with their conscience to accept the Oath of Royal Supremacy. Severe acts were passed against recusants in the reign of Elizabeth, and on March 7th, 1588, Thomas Vachell felt the full weight of this severity in the forfeiture of all his goods and chattels, and two-thirds of his estates and tenements to the Queen, because that for the previous 'sixteen years he had absented himself from his Parish Church as well as from other Churches and Chapels.' No doubt the milder pressure of fines for recusancy had been applied to the conscience of Thomas Vachel! even before this wholesale forfeiture, and from proceedings in the Exchequer Court we have knowledge of a later despoiling of such goods as he may have rescued from Ooley and placed for safe custody with his friends at Ufton Court. A party headed by Sir F. Kuollys* left Reading on July 16th, 1599, at night time for Ufton Court, and proceeded to search the mausion for . They were not disappointed ; and among much other treasure which they removed 'were the goods and treasure of Thomas Vachel!, Esq.,' amounting to £1,484 in gold, £8 in , plate valued at £200, gold chasing worth £100, and 100 marks. LPublic Record Office, Patent Roll, 1 James 4th, part 18, No. 35, May 23rd, 1603]. In the later' years of the old man's life the treasure illegally seized was given out of 'pity for the distressed state of the said Thomas Vachell,' to his nephew and heir,' our trusty and well-beloved subject, Sir Thomas Vachell, Knight.' Harassed by fines, deprived of his property, Thomas Vachell had for some forty years previous to his death left Ooley and resided on his wife's dower at Ipsden (or rather on the one-third thereof allowed by the Crown).+ There he lived to a great age, even to the decay of his senses and memory, cared for by his widowed sister, Anne Montague, and in this condition giving occasion for subsequent proceedings at law, in which his heir charges his sister with undue influence, the retention ot a will, the appropriation of goods, deeds, plate, &c. He died at Ipsden, May 3rd, 1610, and was buried at Reading on May 10th, On the decease of Katheryn, the estate at lpsden remained attached by the Crown until the death of Thomas Vachell in 1610, when it reverted to her nephew, Sir Thomas Reade. She died prior to 1604, the date of her brother's will, wherein she is mentioned as deceased. The place of her interment is stated to have been Dunstew. He lies at St. Mary's, Reading. * Sir F. Knollys' daughter Lettice, married, as his third wife, Sir Thomas Vachell, and afterwards John Hampden, who thus became-in '!aw-the nephew of Katheryn Rede, Sir Thomas V achell's aunt. After John Hampden's death she styled herself Lady Vachell and returned to Ooley Park. t See The Gentleman's Magazine, August, 1897. 12 'A RECORD OF THE REDES.

[Arms of Vachel!, according to Metcalfe, 1664, Quarterly ISt and 4th-Bendy of six ermine and azure; 2nd and 3rd-Argent, a chevron sable, between three cocks gules.1 2. ELIZABETH, second daughter of Thomas Rede, married Richard Beke, Lord of the Manor of Whiteknights in the Parish of Sonning, Berks, chief equerry to Queen Elizabeth, and is mentioned in the will of her father, dated 16th April, 1556, as his wife, and also in that of her brother Thomas, dated 14th April, 1604, as" Mistris Elizabeth Beke." This RICHARD BEKE obtained from the Queen a lease of the Manor of Haddenham for seventy-one years. His son Richard, by Elizabeth Rede, married Coluberry, daughter of Sir Richard, and sister of Lord, Lovelace. His grandson, Sir Richard Beke, was M.P. for Peterborough, and Major of a Parliamentary regiment in the Civil war. Knighted by , he was pardoned by Charles II., January 2nd, 1661. He married at Whitehall, Lavinia, daughter of Roger Whitstone of Whittlesea by Catherine daughter of Robert and sister of ; and for a second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Lea, of Hartwell. Richard Beke, alleged to have been of the same family as Beck or Beke, Bishop of Lincoln in 1342, was the son of Thomas Beke, receiver in 1538 of the dissolved Free Chapel of Whiteknights-Erly, and grandson of Sir John Beke, a personal friend of , Earl 0£ Essex. Sir John's father Thomas was Mayor of Reading in 1458-59, 62. He succeeded Willliam Rede, who again succeeded him in 1464-67-69. He represented Reading during the first year of Edward IV.'s reign, being succeeded by William Rede. John Beke was Abbot of at the dissolution of the Monasteries. [ Arms of Beke, granted by Wriothesley, Garter, temp. Hen. VIII. or, two bars dancettee sa. on a chief of the second three annulets arg,l 3. The third daughter, ALICE, is mentioned in the will of her father, 16th April, 1556, as deceased. Buried 22nd February, 1540, in the Rede Aisle, St. Helen's Church, Abingdon, Berks. ( St. Helen's Abingdon, Parish Registers.) 4. The fourth daughter, MARIE, born 1536, married-rst, WALTER HURST, Lord of the Manor of Hurst, Berks, who died before 1575, and 2ndly, as his second wife, Edward Martyn, Lord of the Manor of Shinfield, Berks. The latter was named in the will of Thomas Rede, 16th April, r556, but was not married then, nor had his future wife, Marie Rede, yet married her first husband. She died roth October, 1607, in the 71st year of her age, and was buried at Shinfield. She is mentioned in the will of her father, Thomas Rede, dated r6t~ April, 1556, as his youngest daughter, aud in the will of her brother Thomas, dated I4th April, r6o4, as Mistris Marye Martyn ; and is styled " Mary Martin widdowe of Shinfield " in a conveyance dated 5th March, r605. ( Kirt. MSS.) Therein she joins William Wollascott, of Shinfield, Berks, Esquire, and Anne his wife, daughter and heir of Edward Martyn and Marie Reade his wife, in conveying to her nephew Sir Thomas Reade, of Barton Court, the Rectory and Parsonage of Dunstew, Oxon, with all the rights formerly belonging to the now dissolved Priory of Merton, and also the advowson of the Vicarage, for the sum of £850. By EDWARD MARTYN, her second husband, she had a daughter and heiress, Anne, who is mentioned in the will of her maternal grandmother, Anne Rede, dated 25th October, 157 5, as being god-daughter and then unmarried. She married William Wollascott, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Shinfield (Jure uxori's), and of Woolhampton, both in Berks, brother of Edmund W ollascott, Esq., of Tidmarsh, Berks, and by him (who was living in 1623), had issue, with others :-William, of Woolhampton, born 1590; matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, r8th June, 1610, aged 20; married firstly, Susan, daughter of Henry Fryer, Esq., Doctor of Physic, by whom he had issue, William, who married Dorothy, A RECORD OF THE REDES. daughter of Katherine Paston, of Norfolk, and by her had a daughter and heiress, Katherine, who married her kinsman, Thomas W ollascott, Esq., of Sutton Courtney, Berks, who was born in 1630, being 34 years of age on the 16th March, 1664, and had issue, 1'Martin, son and heir, aged three in 1664 ; 2, Edward. Martin Wollascotes grandson, William, of Woolhampton Lodge, had a daughter and heiress, Henrietta Maria, who in 1755 married Arthur James, 7th Earl of Fingall in the . Their son and heir, Arthur James, 8th Earl, was ,,;ummoned to the House of Lords as Baron Fingall of W oolhampton. [Arms of Martyn. (Metcalfe) Argent on a bend sable cotised ermines, 3 cinque­ foils, or]. [ Arms of Wollascott. (Metcalfe) Quarterly of six. 1st and 6th-Sable, a bend between 6 martlets or. 2nd-or, a lion passant sable ; 3rd-gules, a shoveller arg.; 4th­ arg. a chevron gules between 3 bugle horns sable; 5th-arg. on a bend sable cotised ermines, 3 cinquefoils, or.] THOMAS READE,* sometimes spelt Read, received a grant of the following arms from Camden, Clarencieux King of Arms, 1597, viz., Gules, a saltire between four garbs or. We find him mentioned in a document dated 1549; under age at the date of his father's will, 16th April, 15 56 ; executor to the will of his mother, dated 25th October, 15 7 5 ; and mentioned in the will of his brother-in-law (his son's wife's father), Sir John Brocket, 7th August, 1598, as Thomas Reade, Esq. He was High Sheriff of Berks, 1581-2 and 1599 (in pedigree-Rawlinson MSS., b. 8I,jol. I7, Ashmole, in 1668, describes him, in error, as Sir Thomas Reade, Knight). There is an indenture made 6th November, 1580,t between Edward Denton, of Am brosden, Oxon, and Thomas Reade, of Barton, in the Parish of St. Nicholas, within the Borough of Abingdon, Berks, towards the completion of the purchase of the lands in Dunstew ( Kirt. Park Mun.), and the indenture for the completion of the purchase of the Manor and Lordship of North Aston between Richard Chetwood, of Warkworth, co. Northampton, Esq., and Thomas Reade, of Barton, near Abingdon, Esq., for £1,000, is dated 21st November, 1598 (Kirt. Park Mun.). Thomas Reade died on Tuesday, 25th September, 1604, at his Manor House, Beedon (Fun. Cert., Herald's Coll.), and was buried 26th December, 1604, in the Rede aisle, St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks. Funeral observed 26th January, 1605 (St. Helen's Parish Registers).t His will, dated 14th April, 1604, is as follows:- In the name of God, Amen. The ffourtenbhe day of Aprill in the yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne Lorde James, by the grace of God, Kinge of Englande, ffrance, and Ireland, the Seconde, and of Scotlande Thirtie Seven. I, 'l'HOMAS READE, of BARTON in the Countie of Berkes, esquire, whole of mynde and of good and perfecte memorie, thanckes and praise be geven vnto Allmightie God, callenge to my remembrance that deathe to all men is a thinge most certen, and the bower thereof most vncerten, And meanynge to sette, order and direction for and concernenge my goodes and Chattells whatsoever, as that all contencion concernenge the same after my decease mighte cease, and vnytie and concorde shoold be setled and placed betweene my children and my ffrendes, doo ordayne and make this my lastf' will and Testamente in maner and forme followinge, That is to saye, Inprimis, I geue and bequeathe my soule to God, hopinge assuredly to be saued by the deathe and passion of Christe Jesus my Sauiour and Redeemer, Item I bequeathe my bodye to be buried in the Chappell or Ile of Ste Hellen's Churche in ABINGDON, whereas I wi>.s wonte accustomablie to sytte, Item I give to the poore in ABINGDON Tenne poundes to be bestowed by the discretion of my Executor at the tyme of my funerall, Item I geve to the poore in DuNSTEWE ffortie shillinges to be payde vnto * Thomas Reade's name is thus spelt in theipsden Muniments, but he signed his will'' Read," vide infra. tAt this date there is an intimacy between the Lee family and the Reades, a John and William Lee are mentioned. Christopher Lye, or Lee, Gentleman, had been a friend of Thomas Rede, of Barton, who died in 1556. There is also an intimacy with the Tesdale (Founders of Pemb. Coll., Oxon.) family (Anthony and Christopher Tesdale mentioned).-Kirt. Park Mun. :t: In the Ipsden Muniment chest is an extract from the Rolls of a quietus to Thomci,; Reade for the rent of the Queen's two parts in 30 acres of land in , and in two parts of tihe M:1nor of Ipsden Basset and Ipsden Huntercombe belonging to Thomas Vachell, Recusant. A RECORD OF THE RE.DES. them within one yeare after my decease by my executor, Item I geve to the poore in LONG WYTNAM Twentie shillinges to be payde vnto them within sixe monethes after my decease by my executor, Item I geve to the poore of BmDON ffortye shillinges to be payde vnto them within one moneth nexte after my decease by my Executor, Item I geve and bequeaths to the amendinge of the highewaie from SuGWORTR GATFJ, so farre as myne owne grounde goeth towardes NORCOTT,* the some of ffyue powndes to be bestowed by my Executor within one yeare after my decease, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto William Hollowaye, the sonne of-William Hollowaye, nowe my servante, the some of ffyue poundes to be payde vnto him by my Ex:ecutor when he shall accomplishe the al:l'e of Sixteens yeares, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto Dorothie Smarte, one of my servauntes, ffortye shillmges to be payde vnto her within Twoo yeares after my decease by my Executor, Item I geve and bequeaths vnto Jane Sherwood my Servante Three poundes to be payde unto her by my E,rncutor within one yeare nexte after my decease, I geve vnto Diana Barney my servante ffortie shillinges to be payde vnto her by my executor within one yeare after my_decease, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto all the reste of my mayde servantes, which hathe dwellte withe me by the space of one whole yeare before my departure oute of this worlde, one whole yeare's wages to every of them to be payde by my executor within Twoo yeares after my decease, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto John Buckn my servants Three poundes to be payde vnto him by my executor within twoo yeares after my decease, Item I geve aud bequeathe vnto Thomas Hulcottes my servante ffortie shillinges to be paide vnto him by my execu1Jor within Twoo yeares next after my deoease, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto all the reste of my men servantes, which hathe served me by the space of one whole yeare before my decease, one whole yeare's wages to every of them, to be payde vnto them by my executor within 'rhree yeares next after my decease, Item I geve and bequeathe unto my sisters Mistris ELIZABFJTH BEKFJ and Mistris MARYE MARTYN, and to either of them, ffortie shillinges to be put into a Ringe by my Executor and delyuered vnto them within three monethes next after my decease, Item my will is that my executor shall pay vnto his brother JOHN RmADFJ all such somes of money whiche by bill I did owe vnto my Sister, Mistris KATHEREN VAOHELL deceased, at the tyme of her departure out of this worlds, So as the same sames are not recouered from me by order of !awe at the sute of my brother in lawe THOMAS VAOHELL, esquire, Item I geve amt bequeathe vnto Anne ffaws0tt, one of my mayde servantes at BEDON, ffortie shillinges to be payde vnto her by my ex:ecutor within twoo yeares nexte after my decease, Item my will is that my executor shall delyuer vnto his saide brother JOHN presentlie after my deeease all such wrytiuges and other thinges that are in a cheste and a trnncke, whiche was geven vnto him by his Aunte, Mistris KATHEREN VAOHELL deceased, before her departure oute of this worlde, So as the same writinges and other thinges are not recouered from me by order- of !awe at the sute of my brother in !awe '.raoMAS V ACHELL aforesaid, Item I geve and bequeathe vnto my sonne in lawe Mr. HENRY BULSTROD and vnto MARYE nowe his wife the some of Thirteen powndes, sixe shillinges and eighte pence to be put into a peece of plate for them and to be delyuered unto them within one yeare nexte after my decease, The reste of all my goodes and Chattells and debtes vnbequeathed, my debtes and legacies payde and my ffuneralles discharged, I geve and bequeathe vnto THOMAS RmADE my soone, whom I make my whole Executor of this my presente laste will and Testamente, Item whereas I have ioyned my sonne JOHN READE in my purchase of the mannor of APPLEFORDE and haue made him a lease of dyvers yarde landes in LONGE WYTNAM for certen yeares yet vnexpired, Therefore my will is that my saide sonne JOHN shall not haue any of my goodes or chattelles duringe his natural] life (other than is specified before by the guifte of his Aunte, mistris KATHEREN VAOHELL), or which is due vnto him by vertue Therof, as is aforesaide, Item whereas I houghte for my son RICHARD READE a lease of the parsonage of CuLLAll! for Terme of his life and a lease of the SoKE (?) MILLS and allso haue ioyned him in a purchase of BARRINGTON ll!YLLES withe me, Therefore my will is that my said sonne RICHARD READE shall not haue any of my goodes or Chattells nor claim any intereste therein, Item I doo make and ordaine to be my Overseers of this my last will and Testaments my brothers in lawe EnWARDll MARTYN, JOHN WYMARDE,t WILLIAM STONHOUSE and the aforesaid HENRYFJ BULLSTROD, esquires, desiringe them to assist my saide son '.rHOMAS with their Councell towerdes the performance of this my laste will and Testaments, and I geve and bequeaths vnto every one of them my saide Overseers ffortie shillinges to buye every one of them a ringe, In wytness whereof I have herevnto sett my hand and seale the daie and years first aboue wrytten, Wytnesses to this my last will and Testamente, Thomas Hulcott, John Higgins, William Hutt. per me THOMAM READ. Probatum fuit huiusmodi Testamentum apud London coram Domino Johanne Benet milite, Legum Doctors, Surrogato venerabi!is viri Domini Johannis Gibson militis, Legum etiam Doctoris, Curie prerogatiue Cantuarienses Magistri, Custouis siue Commissarii legitime constituti, vicesimo Quarto die mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Quinto, J uramento THO.IE READE fi.lij naturalis et · Iegitime dicti defuncti et Executoris in Testamento predicto nominati, Cui commissa fuit Administratio bonorum, Jurium et creditorum eiusdem defuncti de bene et fideliter administrando etc. Ad sancta Dei Evangelia Jurati. Prerogative Court of , { H Somerset House. 24 ayes. Thomas Reade married MARY, daughter of George Stonhouse, Esq., Lord of the Manors of Little or , Kent, and Radley,t Berks (which latter estate he * N orthcourt, a hamlet near Abingdon. tJohn Wymarde probably married his wife's sister. +The Manor of Barton subtends that of Radley, aud it is a coincidence that the recent owner of Barton Manor, Sir W. Bowyer, Bart., like the Reade family, whom the Bowyers succeeded there, is a descendant of George Stonhouse. The alliance between neighbours proved advantageous to the Reades indirectly, inasmuch as the widow of Sir William Stonhouse married the son of Speaker Lenthall. This circumstance ensured the friendly offices of the Speaker during the Civil War, It would also appear that the benefit may have been mutual, inasmuch as from a Latin document in the Archives of A RECORD OF THE REDES. obtained from Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent under the great seal of England, 28th January, 1560), Clerk of the Green Cloth (temp. Edward VI., Philip and Mary and Elizabeth) by Elizabeth, his second wife, daughter of Mr. Alderman Woodroft, of London, relict of Walter Lawson, Esq. She was sister of Sir William Stonhouse, of Radley, Berks., Bart., so created 7th May, 1628 (who was appointed one of the overseers of the will of his brother­ in-law, the above Thomas Reade, dated 14th April, :.604), and aunt of Sir James Stonhouse, of Amberden Hall, Essex, Bart., so created uth June, 1641. She married before 1568, and was buried 14th September, 1625, at St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks-(St. Helen's and St. Nicholas' Parish Registers). [Stonhouse arms, granted to George Stonhouse, of Little Peckham, by Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1556. Arg. on a fesse sa. between 3 falcons volant az. beaked, legged, and jessed, or, a lion's head cabossed between 2 mullets of the last.] By Mary Stonhouse Thomas Reade had three sons-Sir Thomas of whom anon, John, and Richard; with four daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, and Catherine. We will notice first the juniors, leaving the heir to follow in succession. JOHN READE, Lord of the Manor of Appleford, Berks, described before the death of his father as of Barton Court. Baptized 13th October, 1577, at St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks; Sir John Fettiplace, Knt., and William Dunche, Esq., god-fathers.-( St. Helen's Church Parish Registers). Sir John Fettiplace, of Childrey, was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1568 and 1577. William Dunche, afterwards Sir William Dunche, of , was High Sheriff of Berks in 1570-(Fullet's Worthies); and his son was created, by patent of Oliver Cromwell, Baron Burne!. John Reade matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, with his brothers Thomas and Richard, 6th July, 1593,* at which date he was 15 years of age, as appears from the registers of the . He was a student of the Middle Temple in 1594. He is mentioned in the will of his father, dated ·14th April, 1604, and proved 24th April, 1605, in C.P.C. John Reade died unmarried, at Barton Court, on Thursday, 10th January, 1605- ( Fun. Cert., Heralds' College); admon. granted 14th January, 1605, in C.P.C., to Henry Bulstrode and his wife, Marye Reade, sister of John Reade, a previous adman. having been granted in the Archdeaconry of Berks, uth January, 1605, to his brother Richard Reade of Barton Court, gentleman, and William Stonhouse (his uncle), of Radley, Berks. RICHARD READ (or Reade), of Rectory-he being lay-rector-Oxford­ shire, third son, was born at Barton Court, and baptized 16th August, 1579, at St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, with his brothers Thomas and John, 6th July, 1593, at which date he was 14 years of age-(Matriculatzon Registers, IJ84-I6I4, Oxford University), and was a student of the Middle Temple in 1595. In a certam writing, dated 4th December, 1597 (39 Queen Eliz.), between Thomas Reade, Sir John Brocket, Knt., and Richard Spencer, Esq., upon the occasion of the marriage of Thomas Reade the younger with Mary Brocket, the said Thomas the elder

Mr. Preston, Abingdon, entitled in English, " An Exemplification for Tithes upon the Statutes of 2nd Edward VI." (1550), itJ appears that William Stonhouse, Esq., brought an amicable suit by John Powell his attorney to recover from Thomas Reade, Esq., the tithes belonging to him on the hay upon 128 acres of meadow belonging to the said Thomas Reade in Radley and 'l'hrupp, Berks-these tithes having been granted by Queen Elizabeth, 21st June, 1596, to the same William Stonhouse and Elizabeth his wife and Elizabeth daughter of the same William and Elizabeth, and for the term of the Jiff, of the sarhe William and Elizabeth, with remainder to the aforesaid Elizabeth the daughter. The aforesaid Thomas Reade, Esq., later Sir Thomas, appeared by his attorney John Pope. William Stonhouse was the brother of Mary Stonhouse, the mother of Sir Thomas Reade, and consequently his uncle. To anticipate -this Mr. Pope had married a Brocket, and was related to Sir Thomas Reade's wife, viz. :-Mary Brocket. He was also ancestor of the Baronets Pope, and Earls of Downe, and of the s:i,me family as the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. *Sir Thomas, John and Richard, three brothers, entered at Queen's, a College which owm1d then, and still possesses, ecclesiastical property in Berks. Hence this connection with Queen's. A RECORD OF THE REDES. settled the Manor of Barton upon his eldest son, Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas, Reade, to the use and behoof of John, the second son of the aforesaid Thomas Reade, and in default of male issue to the use and behoof of Richard, the third son of the aforesaid Thomas (see An Exemplification of Pomney, dated 19th June, 1617). He signs himself Richard Read (without the:final e) to a bond dated 11th January, 1604-5, and at the same date was Administrator of his brother John. In 1614 there was a recovery wherein Richard Reade (sic) is demandant against Henry Bulstrode and James Whitelocke tenants, and Thomas Reade and Mary, his wife, voucher of the fifth part of Brocket Hall and its park, and forty messuages, two mills (probably those mentioned in his father's will), four dove houses, forty gardens, 2200 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, 600 acres of wood, and 400 acres of heath and furze, in Bishop's Hatfield, and other places-(Kirt. Mun.). He again signs his name without the final e to an indenture dated 9th May, 1625 (in which he is described as of Dunstew), but appends his signature with a final e to another indenture bearing the same date. Richard Read, Esq., was associated and named with his brother Sir Thomas, and the latter's wife, Mary, in a License of Alienation, granted by Bacon in 1625, allowing them to give and grant to William Stonhouse, Esq., 40 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, and 30 acres of wood in Barton and Radley, Berks. This document was in the possession of Richard's descendant, General Meredith Read, and is accompanied by a large portion of the Great Seal. He died at Dunstew in 1659-(Dunstew Reg.), nine years after the death of his eldest brother Sir Thomas, and one before the Restoration. Richard Read married HELEN, the eldest child of Sir Alexander Cave, Knt., of Bargrave and Rotherby, Leicester, High Sheriff of Leicestershire, 1620-1, by Anne, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Brocket, Knt., of Brocket Hall, in the parish of Hatfield, Lord of the Manor of Symonds Hide (with Almeshoebury), and,jure uxoris, of Minsden, both in the same county, High Sheriff of Herts in 1566 and 1581, by Helen, his first wife, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Lytton, Knt., of Knebworth, Herts, and of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, High Sheriff of the counties of Herts and Essex. She was named after her grandmother, Helen Lytton, and was born about 1601 ; married before 1622 (probably about 1619) ; died, having had issue, at Dunstew, and was buried there 25th February, 1623. Thus, Richard wedded the niece of his elder brother's wife, and became, by marriage, his brother's nephew. As regards the issue of Richard Read by Helen Cave, they will be treated in detail in the Chapter on the American branch of the family. Of Thomas Reade's daughters, MARY married Henry Bulstrode, Esq., of Hedgelie Bulstrode, or Hugeley Upton, Bucks. She was born at Barton Court, and baptized at St. Helen's, Abingdon, 27th November, 1583. She is mentioned in the will of her father, dated 14th April, 1604, and was one of those who administered to the estate of her brother John Reade, 14th January, 1605. She was married at St. Helen's, Abingdon, 14th September, 1600 ; died 13th December, 1614, and was buried 21st December following, in the Chancel of Upton Church, Bucks. Her husband, who married a second wife, lies by her side in Upton Church, having survived her eighteen years. Their issue consisted of three sons and four daughters. Her husband, HENRY BULSTRODE, eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Bulstrode,

Knt, of Hugeley, or Hedgelie Bulstrode, High Sheriff of Bucks, 28 Eliz. (1586) 1 by Cecily, his wife, eldest daughter of Sir John Croke, alias Le Blount, Knt., of Chilton, Bucks, was baptized 5th January, I 5 78 ; matriculated at University College Oxford, 15th December, 1592, aged 13; a student of the , r 595, as of Hedgerley, Bucks; M.P. for Helston, 1614, and for Bucks, 1625. He is mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Thomas Reade, dated 14th April, 1604, and in a deed of recovery, dated 1614; administered A RECORD OF THE REDES. to the effects of his brother-in-law, John Reade, 14th January, 1605. He married secondly, 20th July, 1615, Bridget, daughter of Henry Evans, Esq. (and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Wake, Esq., of Clevedon, Somerset), widow of John Allen, Esq., of the City of London. His second wife died 29th October, 1631, and was buried 3rd November following at Upton, Bucks, where he also was buried 3rd January, 1632. Henry, second son of Henry Bulstrode by Marie Reade, was a zealous Parliamentarian. He was Lord of the Manor of Wyrardisbury, and lived at Horton. In the Commons Journals, Vol. ii., p. 816, is an authorisation to Henry Bulstrode to raise "all the forces of foot of the train bands and volunteers within the Three Hundreds of Chiltern and to be Colonel over them," date 20th October, 1642. On 10th August, 1643, he was buried at Upton. His elder brc,ther, Thomas, was a Master in Chancery, and his first cousin, Marie Reade's nephew, was the famous Sir , created a Viscount by Oliver Cromwell. The Bulstrodes of Bulstrode were seated there prior to the Conquest. The manor passed on the female line to the Brudenells, and after a change of ownership was purchased by the notorious Judge Jeffreys. [Bulstrode arms-Sa. A stag's head exhossed arg., attired or, between the attires a cross pattee, fitchee of the third, through the nostrils an arrow of the last, feathered of the second. Crest-a bull's head erased gu., attired or, between two wings expanded, sa.} Of the remaining three daughters of Thomas Reade, viz., Elizabeth, Jane, Catherine, nothing is known, nor are any of them mentioned in any family will or deed. On General Meredith Read's authority I include them in the pedigree, but with considerable reserve. Both he and I were fully agreed that at this period we were confronted with two Drornios. In other words there were two Thomas Reades, both spelling the name similarly, but the one a country gentleman, the other a burgess of Abingdon. I am inclined to believe that these three ladies were sisters of Thomas the burgess, and not related to either Thomas of Barton Court. Both father and son might easily have been confounded with Thomas the burgess, who was Town Clerk of Abingdon. We are able to distinguish them by one simple detail. Thomas the burgess held office in Christ's Hospital, Abingdon, whose records have been preserved with precision, and give the date of his decease 1642. Now Sir Thomas, as will appear, lived to 1650. The two therefore were distinct personages. CHAPTER 11.

SIR THOMAS READE, KNIGHT.

Sir THOMAS READE, Knight (1575, 165o)=Mary (d. 1654), dau. and coh. of Sir John Brocket, Knight, of Brocket Hall, Herts, by Helen, dau. of Sir Robert Lytton. (For issue see next Chapter).

IR THOMAS READE, Knight, Lord of the Manors of Beedon, Appleford, Barton S Court, Berks; Denford, Northampton; Dunstew and Ipsden, Oxford (by Royal Patent, dated 1593), of Minsden (which he purchased from John Carleton, of Cheneley, Cambridge, his wife's sister's child, for £1,980-deed of Conveyance, dated 12th June, 1625,) and Hitch; also (Jure uxoris) of Brocket Hall, all in Herts ;* patron of the livings of Little Ayot, Dunstew and North Aston, and is mentioned as patron of Beedon in 1628 (Archdeacon's MSS., Berks, Bod. Lib.). He was born in 1575, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, with his brothers John and Richard (r), 6th July, 1593 ( Registers of the· University of Oxford, Vol. ii., p. 197), aged 17, and was a student of the Middle Temple in 1594. t He served as High Sheriff of Berks, 1606 ( Fuller's Worthies, Vol. i., p. 111), High Sheriff of , 13 James I., 16 1 5 ( Lords Lieut. and High Shen'-(fs of Oxfordshire, p. 43), and of Herts, 1618_: knighted at Royston, 21st July, 1619. He was sole executor to the will of his father, 14th April, 1604. Sir Thomas Reade obtained the Rectory, Parsonage, and advowson of the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Dunstew, from William Wollascott, Esq., of Shinfield, Berks, Anne his wife, granddaughter of Sir Francis Englefield, and Mary Martyn, Sir Thomas's widowed aunt, for the sum of £850, the 5th March, 1605 ( Indenture 3 James I., Kirt. Mun.), and added to the estate at Dunstew in 1610. On the 14th April, 1625 1 he sold to William Stonhouse, Esq., 30 acres of pasture and wood of that part of his Manor called Alderne, for £600. In 1625 a number of Hertfordshire gentlemen were called upon to lend money to King Charles I., a forced loan productive of widespread discontent. The original document was presented by the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, Bart., Comptroller General of the Exchequer, to the British Museum, where it is still preserved.

*From a Cornewall ~edigree quoted by Mrs. BaJdwyn Childe it would appear that Sir Thomas held land in Herefordshire, viz., "Sir Thomas Read, Bart., of Birchall, Hereford-his lady was one of the daughters and coh. of Sir John Brockett, of Brockett Hall. This Sir John did entertain Queen Elizabeth when she was a Princess in Queen :Mary's time, and was in his house when she was proclaimed Queen of England, and afterwards brought from Brockett Hall to London." +General Meredith Read identified him with the Sir Thomas Reade who was granted the degree of M.A. by Aberdeen University, May 28th, 1620, A RECORD OF THE REDES.

The five gentlemen most heavily taxed were :- Sir Charles Morison, Knight and Baronet, summoned to Watford for the sum of .£40. Sir Thomas Hide, Baronet, to Sandridge, for ...... £40. John Baily, of Hartingfordbury, to Hertford, for .£40, Sir Thomas Reade, Knight, to Bovingdon, for .£30. William Row, of Barley, Esq., to Barkway, for .£30. ( Cussans' Hist. of Herts, Parts vii. and viii., p. 161 ). Sir Thomas Reade, together with Sir William Lytton and Lord Falkland, refused to pay ship-money for the county of Hertford in 1636, and the bailiff did not dare to distrain for fear of being sued. , Many of the defaulters were very poor and many had gone to New England.-(Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1637-40). Sir Thomas Reade had the honour of entertaining King Charles I. and Queen Henrietta Maria at Barton Court on three occasions. Like Sir Oliver Cromwell at Hinchingbroke, whose entertainment of James I. is so graphically described by Noble in his life of the Lord Protector, Sir Thomas held the Abbatial Manor of Barton with the Abbots' palace, a Norman building whose ruins cover five acres, on condition of entertaining royalty. According to "Deposition of witnesses taken at Newbury, October 4th, I 587," whereof the original is in the Rirtlington Archives, Thomas Rowland, last Abbot of the dissolved Abbey of Abingdon, on February 9th, 1538, surrendered the Manors of Barton and Radley to King Hen. VIII., after whose decease the said manors came to King Edw. VI., who on July 10th, 1547, granted the Manor of Barton to Sir Richard Lee, Knight, whose estate the said Sir Thomas Reade received from time immemorial. But the Abbot's Palace, styled Barton, Berton, and Bartoun House, or Court, was named the" King's House in Abingdon," and a fee of .£6 1s. Sd. annually paid for its repairs.;.• The burden of entertaining royalty discounted largely the actual value of the mansion and estate; indeed we find from the Patent Rolls that Sir Thomas Reade's father contemplated escaping this obligation by aliening his rights, for 29 Eliz., p. 6, Thomas Reade, Esquire is granted a license to alienate the Manor of Barton to . This transfer did not take place, but it is noteworthy that a license of alienation was essential, and therefore the question arises whether, when Sir John Reade at the close of the last century aliened Barton Manor to the Bowyers, any such license was obtained, and whether without such license the transfer was legal ? The first occasion when the Court exercised its indubitable right of claiming the Reades' hospitality was, according to Gutch, Annals of Oxford, Vol. ii., p. 67, early in the reign of Charles I., "An Dni, 1629, 19th August, the King and Queen came to Oxford from Berton by Abindon, but making no stay there went on to Woodstock. They left Woodstock on the 27th, and were met at Greenditch by the Mayor and Corporation, who presented the King with a fair gilt bowl and the Queen with a pair of rich gloves. After

*In Hearne's Rema,·ks, Vol. 76, i9 the following- :-Mr. Calvert, of Christ Church, hath a thin MS. in folio, written by his ancestor, the first Lord Bal\,i1uure, then Secretary of State, containing a list of the Krng's officers and their fees, of which I transcribed t]:ie following passag·e. Com. Oxonia. -Ranger of the Forest, Fee, 6 li. 2s. 8d. Banburye Castle.-Keeper of ye Castle, Fee, 2 li. Com, Berks. Abendon.-Keeper of the Howse, Fee, 6 li. ls. 8d. Reading.-Keeper of the Howse and Gardens, Fee, 20 li. In Vol. 34 of Hearnr, date Friday, May 2nd, 1712, occurs this passage:-" Yesterday I walked over to Abbington with Mr. Dyer and Mr. Ward, Fellows of Oriel College. \Ve did not keep the direct Rode, but turned off in the wood towards Radley with the designe to find out the Camp of Men of War that Mr. Leland mentionq and called by the name of Serpenthil. But this we could not find. At Abbington we enquired after Remains of the Abbey, but found only two, viz,, one beyond the Abbey gate on the left-hand m the gardens, and another called the Abbey Mill. A man told us of abundance of Relictes, and some coffins that had been dug up in the garden near the water, not far from a ruinated house called Barton, This old house was large, and was, it seems, demolished in the late Civil Wars," 20 A RECORD OF THE .REDES. dinner at Merton College His Majesty conferred the Honour of Knighthood upon William Spencer, of Yarnton, Esq., and he then returned to Berton."* The second occasion of a Royal visit to Barton Court is alluded to in the Harleian M SS, Baskerville's Collection. The reference is to the Churchwardens accounts of St. Helen's, Abingdon, under date 1638. "To the ringers when the King came to Bartoun 16 shillings; to the ringers upon the King's return sixteen shillings." The third occasion occurred on April 17th, 1644. Essex, Waller, and Robartes were advancing in force from London, and the Kmg fearing for the safety of Queen Henrietta Maria, brought her to Barton, the first stage on her journey to Exeter, hence the historic mansion witnessed the final farewell of the ill-starred Royal couple. As will appear from the sequel Charles on his second visit selected Sir Thomas' third son as a recipient of royal favour. We may further surmise that the Knight himself became attached subsequently to the Royal suite in Oxford. In April, 1645, Cromwell at the head of the New Model was advancing over the Chilterns, while the royal cavalry under the command of the Earl of Northampton lay at Islip, i.e. on the opposite side of Oxford. King Charles, evidently desirous that his horse should wheel round and confront Cromwell on the eastern side of Oxford, despatched Sir Thomas Reade, under escort of Lieut. Denton, to Lord Northampton, with whom-as will appear-he was connected through his sister-in-law, Lady Spencer, and who was god­ father to his grandson, Compton. Perfect Passages of each day's proceedings in Parliament, No. 24, from Wednesday, April 2nd to April 9th, 1 645, thus reports :- " Monday, April 7th. A letter came from Lieut-General Craford (Crawford) his head-quarters at Culworth, dated April 5th, which certifie of a notable exploit performed by Major Thomas Sheffield. Here followeth a copy of the letter It-self. "Sir, these are to certifie to you that we had a tedious march, and some action with the Earl of Northampton's Horse; Major Thos. Sheffield fought with a party last night. We have Sir Tho. Reade and one Lieut. Denton. We took this night two letters, one from the King, subscribed by Secretary Nicholas, calling us Rebels, another from the L. Hatton to the Earl of Northampton, of great consequence." Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke further states that these letters were found on Sir Thomas Reade's person. The Weekb; Account, April 9th, 1645, says: "Sir Thomas Reade was brought up to London from some town near Oxford." A Perfect Diurnal, No. 89, 7th-14th April, adds : "It was by letter this day certified that Major General Crawford's forces are upon their march towards Windsor. It was further certified that Major Sheffield on Friday night last (i.e. before Monday, April 4th) had fallen upon the enemy's quarters on the edge of , took Sir Thomas Reade, Lieut. Denton and divers horses and prisoners. And that he intercepted two letters, one from the King, the other from Sir to the Earle of Northampton of special consequence." The TYeekly Pust1Juster, April 8th, states: "The taking of Sir Thos. Reade, Lieut. Denton and some others was this day certified, as also the intercepting of two letters, the one from His Majesty, the other from Sir Christopher Hatton, directed to the Earl of Northampton.

*ThiB i.Yilliam Spencer, of Yamtoa, was 110ph0w of Sir Thoma.; Re.. Jc's bdy-vilc an account of the Brocket family at the close of this Chapter. · A RECORD OF THE REDES. 21

On April r 2th, 1645 ( Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, I890 ), the Committee of Both Kingdoms met. Present, the Earls of Northumberland, Manchester, and Loudoun, Sir Henry Vane, Senr., Sir A. Haselrigg, and Messrs. Pierpont,* Browne, and Barclay. Ordered. "To write to Major Hurryt to carry Sir Thos. Reade in custody to the Com­ mittee at St. Albans, who are to examine the whole business.and report to this Committee." And in the Day Book of Orders, Interregnum, occurs the following passage :-" The Committee of both kingdoms to Major Hurry. We are informed that you have Sir Thomas Reade in your custody. Carry him to the Committee at St. Albans, who are desired to examine the whole matter concerning him, and to report the state thereof to the Committee.'' The Parliamentary Committee for Herts was composed, with others, of the Earl of Salisbury, Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall-Sir Thomas Reade's third son-Sir Brocket Spencer, his wife's nephew, and Sir Rowland Lytton, his wife's cousin. It may fairly be surmised that the circumstance of Sir Thomas bemi,; sent for trial to so amicable a Committee, was due to the influence of Speaker Lenthall, his near neighbour at Bessilsleigh, and his connection owing to the marriage of the Speaker's son with Lady Stonhouse. Mr.- Kirk of the Record Office in a letter to the late General Meredith Read, dated November 30th, 1893, writes: "It would seem that Sir Thomas Reade made his peace with the Parliament very soon after his capture, for two reasons : first, that his name does not occur among the delinquents who compounded for their estates; and secondly, because he was appointed one of the Committee for Oxon in 1646. I believe this was one of the Sub-Committees for compounding with delinquents." The following appears in the Journals of tlze House of Commons. Die Veneris, ,7° Aprilis, 1646. Resolved:-" That this House both nominate and approve of Sir Thomas Reade of Dunstew, Knight, William Wheat and John Lenthall, Esquires, William Draper, Thomas Appletree, and Robert Barber, gentlemen, to be added to the Committee for the County of Oxon. The Lords concurrence to be desired herein. In the Hist. MSS. Commission, Appendix to 6th Report, p. 115, this passage occurs:­ Calendar of House of Lords MSS., r646. May 2nd. Draft order for adding Sir Thomas Reade and others to the Committee for the County of Oxford.

Journal of the House of Lords, Vol. 8, p. 293. Die Saturni 2° die Maii 22 Caroli Anno, 1646 :-" It is this Day ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that they hereby nominate and approve of Sir Thomas Reade, of Dunstew, Knight [ with the other names at supra] to be added to the Committee for the County of Oxon." How long that state of affairs lasted is uncertain, for under date September 12th, 1650, i.e. only three months prior to Sir Thomas' decease,+ the subjoined passage seems suggestive:

*Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall, married as his second wife the widow of this gentleman, who was a son of the Earl of Kingston. t This Major Hurry ratted three times in the course of the Civil War. :tln the year 1650 Anne Green, servant of Sir Thomas Reade, of Dunstew, in Oxfordshire, was gotten with child by some servant, or as she affirmecl, a member of the family. Sha was prematurely delivered, and suspicion falling upon her and the proofo, which she lmrl baen too ignorant to conceal, being found, she was conveyed to Oxford Castle three days after her delivery, when she was arraigned before Sergeant Unton Croke, of Marston, and Bm1tenced t,1 be lmnJed, which was executed on the 14th December in thB Oa-itle yard. She hung for half-h.Jur, being struck several times by the butt end of a musket. Being cut down she was put into a coffin to be dissected, when they perceived that in spite of the rope being still tied, life was not extinct. Sir William Petty, Professor of Anatomy at the University, Dr. Clark, Presiden1l of Magdalen College, and others restored her to consciousness in 14 hours, and by their intervention a pardon was procured. She went to live at Steep'.e Barton and married, dying in 1659.-Plot's Oxfordshire. 22 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Council of State; Day's Proceedings :-19. "The Lords Commissioner of the (great) seal to leave out the names of Vincent Barry of Thame, Sir Thos. Reade and Wm. Wheat, of Oxfordshire in the Commission of the Peace, they refusing to act thereon."*

Sir Thomas Reade was buried at Dunstew, December 20th, 1650. The following is a precis of his will :-- Sir Thomas Reade, of Dunstew, Oxon, Knight. Will dated 28th June, 1650, proved in C.P.C., 8th February, 1650-1 by his granddaughter Marie Cornewall [37 Grey]. To the Poor of Dunstew £ 20. "To my wife l\lary all her wearinge apparell and all her money that she hath in her owne custody and all her trunckes and box('s with all things that bee therein and all my bedds at my house at Brocket Hall and all other my goods, household stuffe and utensills whatsoever in my house at Brocket Hall, in the County of Hertford, during her life." And after to my son Sir John Reade. To my daughter Margaret Reade an annuity of £50 out of my lands in Long Witnam, co. Berks. To my grandchildren Katherine Reade £2000, and Mary Reade £rooo, daughters of my son Thomas Reade deceased. My cousin Margaret Sonehouse (sic) £100. My manors of Ipsden Hattercombe (sic) and Ipsden Bassett, Oxon, to my grandson Edward Reade, son of my son Thomas Reade deceased. To my grandchild Thomas Reade (son of my deceased son Thomas) my ]and in Long Witnam, Berks, and my house in Oxford called the Castle. A farm called Holditches farm in Denford, co. Northampton, to my grandchild Gefferie Reade, son of my deceased son Thomas. My lands called Collicke, Bucks, and North Ashton, Oxon, to my grandchild Mary Cornewall, daughter of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, Salop; she to be sole executrix and residuary legatee. Signed: Tho. Reade. Witnesses: Edward Reade, Thomas Reade, Jeffrey Reade, Alexander Reade and Mary his wife, Mary Cornewall, Katherine Reade, Mary Reade, and Anne Cornewall.

MARY, wife of Sir Thomas Reade, was the fifth daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Brocket, Knight, of Brocket Hall, in the parish of Hatfield, Herts, Lord of the Manor of Symonds Hide (with Almeshoebury), and Jure uxoris, of Minsden, both in the same county, High Sheriff of Herts, 1566 and 1581, by Helen, his first wife, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Str Robert Lytton, Knight, of Knebworth, Herts, and of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, High Sheriff of the counties of Herts and Essex, 1545. t

*Vide "Minor Episodes in the Civil War"-Gentlea,a1i's .lluyuz,ne, August, 1897. t Sir Robert de Lytton, K.B., formerly of Lytton, Derby, and afterwards of Knebworth, Herts, Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, Keeper of the Great to King Henry VII., and a member of the Privy Council, is mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Thomas Rede, dated 9th June, 1492, and in that of his mother-in-law, Letice Rede, dated 1st Aug., 1496 (Nicolas' Testamenta Vetusta, p. 415). Sir Robert married firstly, Elizabeth, elder of the two daughters and co-heirs of John Andrews, of \Veston, Norfolk, and relict of Thomas \Vindsor, of Stan well, Middlesex (by whom she had a son, Sir Andrews \Vindsor, who was summoned to Parliament as Baron \Vindsor, in 1529. See BuJ"ke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages); and secondly, Agnes, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Rede, citizen of London, (whose will, dated 9th June, 1492, was proved in 0.P.O., 21st August following, by Richard Lytton and John Wetnall), by Letice, his wife, (whose will, dated 1st August, 1496, was proved in OP.O., 22nd August following). Thomas Rede was the son and heir of Simon de Rede, Lord of the Manor of Munden FurnyvallejuJ"e uxo1•1s. (Dods­ worth MS., Vol. xovii., fol. 80), uy his wife, Joane, daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Grymbold, who bore for arms"' Barry arg. and sa." (Har!. Soc. xxd., p. 12, and HJ,r/ . .IISS., 14,'J3., fol. 2). The Rede arms appear in the seventh quartering over the tomb of Sir vVilliam Lytton, seventh in descEnt from Sir Robert, who died 14th January, 1704 5. The before mentioned Thomas Rede, (as appeara from his will) had, besides Agnes, the wife of Sir Robert de Lytton, a son Robert Rede, or Reede, and another daughter Johaue, who married William Collyns, and had two daughters-J ohane, and Letice, who married , of London, and had issue, 1, Gilbert Hill, of vVhitborrow Hill, Herts, who married Margery, daughter of ...... Okhame, of Newbury, Berks, and luvl two sons and one daughter. 'fhomas Reade, of Barton Court, in his will, dated A RECORD OF THE REDES. 23

On the 4th December, 1597, her husband's father, Thomas Reade, executed an indenture, creating a jointure for her use. (From a document endorsed " Opinion of a Councillor upon ye Case between Sir John Reade and Sir Compton Reade, heir to Sir Thomas Reade, 165r."-Kt'rt. Mun.)

At the time of her marriage in March, 1597-8, she brought a dower of £500 and various lands and tenements, and upon her father's death a few months later inherited one-fifth of his vast estates, including Brocket Hall. She is mentioned in the will of her

16th April, 1556, mentions John Okham, the younger, and John Okham is one of the witnesses to that will. Sir Robert de Lytton, by Agnes, his second wife, the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Rede, of London, had issue I. William, of whom presently. II. Thomas, mentioned in the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Rede, dated 9th June, 1492, and in that of his maternal grandmother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August, 1496. III. George, mentioned in the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Rede, dated 9th June, 1492, and in that of his maternal grandmother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August, 1496. I. Margaret, mentioned in the will of her maternal grandmother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August, 1496. II. Elizabeth, mentioned in the will of her maternal grandmother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August, 1496. III. Fides, wife of Richard Deveneish, Esq. Sir Robert de Lytton died 20 Henry VII. (1504). His eldest son, vVilliam de Lytton, Esq,, of Knebworth, I-forts, Governor of the Castle of Boulogne, France, Sheriff of Essex and Herbs, 1510, is mentioned as "son and heir apparent of Robert Lytton "in the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Rede, dated 9th June, 1492. He is a!Bo mentioned in the will of his maternal grand­ mother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August, 1496. He mrtrried 13 Henry VII. (1498), Audrey, daughter and heiress of Sir Philip Booth, Knig·ht, of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Wittin Hopton, of Swillington, York. (Arms of Booth.-Arg., three boars' heads erect and erased gu.) She died 11th April, 10 Henry VIII. (1518), having survived her husband, who died 26th August, 1517. William de Lytton had issue I. Sir Robert, Knight, of Knebworth, Herts, and Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, Sheriff of Herts and Essex, 37 Henry VIII. (1545), born 1511; knighted at the coronation of King Edward VI., Sunday, 20th February, 1545-6 (Metcalfe's Book of Knights, p. 88). He married firstly (marriage license at the Faculty Office of the , London, dated 14th February, 1545-6), Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas :\'.lunden, and relict of Robert Burgoyne; and secondly, Frances, daughter of Anthony Cavalery, and by her (who was buried at Watton, 20th December, 15315), had three daughters and co-heirs, of whom the elder, Helen, m. Sir John Brocket or Brockett, Knight, of Brocket Hall. It may be added that Jane, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton, Sir Robert's nephew, married Sir Charles Crofts. Their daughter Bridget, married Thomas Read, of Wrangle, son of Sir ,Tohn Read, of Wrangle. Their son was Sir Charles Crofts Read, who married Mary, sister of Viscount Hewett. (Arms of Reads of \Vrangle.-Gules. On a Bend arg. 3 shovelers sable beaked or.) .ffrom the Reads of Wrangle descend appar­ ently the Reades of Holbrook, Suffolk. Sir Rowland's son, Sir \Villiam Lytton, took an active part for the Parliament. The following noble inscription is in Knebworth Banqueting Hall :­ Read the Rede of this old Roof Tree. Here be trust fast. Opinion free. Knightly right hand. Christian knee. Worth in all. Wit in some. Laughter open. Slander dumb. Hearth where rooted Friendships grow, Safe as Altar even to Foe. And the Sparks that upwards go When the hearth flame dies below, If they safe in them may be, Fear no Winter old Roof Tree! {Notes and queries, 7th Series, Vol. IX. Jan. to June, 1890, p. 305). A RECORD OF THE REDES. father, dated 7th August, r598, and in that of her husband dated 28th June, r650. Lady Reade was buried at Hatfield, Herts, 20th April, 1654. Will dated 27th May, 165r; proved 4th May, 1654, in C.P.C.

Dame Mary Reade's will, dated 27th May, 1651, proved 4th May, 1654, by her son, Sir John Reade, bequeathes "all my estate, real and personal to my grandchild, Stephen Reade, the now youngest son of my son Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall, Herts, Knt. and Bart., and if the said Stephen dies under age, then to my grandchildren, Marie and Susan, daughters of the said Sir John Reade. My said son, Sir John Reade, sole Executor in Trust."

The issue of this marriage consisted of five sons and nine daughters; vzde next Chapter.

The Brocket alliance gave the Reades a descent from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, King of Castille, etc., third son cf King Edward the Third.

JOHN OF GAUN'r=as his third wife, CATHERINE, dau. of Sir Payne Roelt, and widow of Sir Otho de Swynford. I -1- JOAN Dlil BEAUFORT=secondly, RALPH NEVILL, Earl of \Vestmorland. I 1-- JoAN NEVILL= THrnIAS DE FAUCONBERG, Lord Fauconberg. _I_I JOAN or JOHANNA DE FAUOONBERG=THOJIIAS BROCKETT. _I_ I Sir THOMAS BROCKET= ELIZABETH, heiress of Philip Ashe. I -I EDWARD BROCKET= ELIZABETH THWAITES, I_ Sm JOHN BJocKET= LuoY, daughter of John Poulter, of Hitchin. I_ I JOHN BROCKET= DOROTHY HUSON. I_ Sir JOHN JROOKET (2) = MARGARET, daughter of William Benstede, of St. Peter's, Herta. _I_ Sir J oHN B!oc.l:ET = as his first wife, HELEN, daughter of Sir Robert Lytton, of Knebworth. I I . I . (a.) MARY BROOKET = Sir THOMAS READE, ancestor (b.) ANNE BROCKET=S1r ALEXANDER CAVE. of the English Branch. I I HELEN CAVE = RICHARD, ancestor of the American Branch.

Of the above, Joan de Beaufort was legitimatised by Act of Parliament, her mother having been governess in the fa';'lily of the Duke of Lau?aster, and having borne ~im three children, anterior to the marriage. These children, however, were spemally debarred from success10n to the Crown. Sir John Brocket (2) had a younger brother, Nicholas, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Hoo and sister of Anne Hoo, who married Thomas Rede (vide supra). Sir John was knighted by Henry VIII'. on Tuesday, February 22nd, 15-16. He a!l'l his wife are commemornted by a m>1gnificent altar-tomb in Wbeathampstead Church. On this tomb, with the ,:,,rms of Brocket, Neville, Fauconberg, Fitz Simon and A RECORD OF THE RED.ES,

Benstede, are quartered the arms of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex,* the ancestor of Margaret Benstede Lady Brocket. Wheathampstead Place was the residence of the Brockets prior to the erection of Brocket Hall. Sir John Brocket, who succeeded the aforementioned, was knighted at Gorhambury the seat of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of t)l~ 9-reat Seal, in }\fay, 1577. He w~s on: of the founders ~f Stevenage School, and commanded the Herts M1ht1a on the occas10n of the menaced mvas10n of the Spanish Armada havino- been a personal friend of Sir . '!.'he park at Brocket Hall was a favourite resort of°his c01;sin the Princess Elizabeth, wi~h whom he was connected by his uncle's marriage with Maro-aret Hoo her first c~usin once removed. As he left no male heirs, his estates were sub-divided among his ~daughters' t Brocket Hall falling to the share of Lady Reade. '

*THOMAS CROMWELL, Earl of Essex = • . • PRYORE. I I CROMWELL, widow of Sir William Fitzwilliam =EDWARD BENSl'EDE. ,------~I I RICHARD BENSTEDE = BASING BOURNE, I I WILLIAM BENSTEDE = WESTBY. I -I-- EDWARD BENSTEDE= . . BARDOLPH. I_I WILLIAM BENSTEDE = EARLY. 1_1 . MARGARET BENSTEDE= S1r JOHN BROCKET, I I Sir JOHN BROCKET=HELEN, dau. of Sir Robert Lytton. -I_I MARY BROCKET= Sir THOMAS READE,

Oliver Cromwell was descended from Elizabeth, sister of the above Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, who married Morgan Williams, their son Sir Richard, discarding his patronymic for that of Cromwell. In bestowing a patent of Baronetcy in 1656 on Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall, Oliver Cromwell was therefore honouring a remote kinsman. The reason alleged was Sir John's contribution volunteered towards the cost of the army in Ireland; but in all probability the title may be referred to the interest of Sir John's connec­ tion, viz., his aunt's nephew, Sir Bulstrode Whitlocke.

tThe co-heiresses of Sir John Brocket were:­ Margaret = Sir John Cuttes, of Childerley. Anne=Sir Alexander Cave, of Bargrave. Elizabeth= , Esq., of Holcombe. Helen = Sir Richard Spencer. Mary = Sir Thomas Reade. Frances= Dudley, Lord North. (Harleian MSS.)

Concerning Sir John CuttPs, a great epicure, the Spanish Ambassador jested that his name was as short as his dinners were long. Sir A. Uave was ancestor of the American Reads; Sir John Carleton of the Lords Dorchester. Sir Richard Spencer's sister married the 1st Earl of Northampton, whence the name Compton hereditary in the Reade family. In the diary of Manningham, who was related to the Botelers of Tewin, Herts, date April, 1602, occurs the following passage:-" I hear that the young Lord North was married to Mrs. Brocket, Sir John Cuttes his ladye's sister; being constrayned in a manner through want of money while he lived at Cambridge; he had some 800 Ii. with her. Shee is not young nor well favoured, noe marvaile if he love her not." The portrait of this Lady North depicts her as a pretty woman with delicate features. She was ancestress of George the Third's Prime Minister, 4 CHAPTER III.

ISSUE OF SIR THOMAS READE BY MARY BROCKET.

Sm THOMAS READE,MARY 5th dau. of Sir John Brocket, I I I I WILLIAM THOMAS (1606,TMARY, 2nd dau. of RICHARD (b. 16w), vide Supplementary ( 1601-1625). 1634), ancestor of Sir Thos. Cornewall, Chapter. s.p. the Shipton and Baron of Burford, Ipsden Reades. (1600).

I I I . Sir ]OHN READE, Bart.=(1) SUSANNE, dau, GEOFFREY. ELIZABETH=Sir GILBERT CoRNEWALL, (1617-1694), vide Chapter of Sir T. Style, (1599-1671) Baron of Burford, and on the Brocket Reades, and had issue had issue (1598-1671). by her (d. 1657). == (2) ALISSIMM0N, widow of Hon, F. Pierpont, (1622 - living 1682).

I I I . ELIZABETH (1600) FRANCES (16o3, =Sir w. RUSSELL, Bart, MARY (1608),=,S1r ROBERT DORMER s.p. living 1650), and of Strensham (1602- and had issue. (1590-1689). had issue. 1669). \------,------, I I I ELLEN (living MARGA.RET=Sir FRANCIS RussEJ.L, ANNE (living=co-RICHARD WINW00D, in 1623-1669). (living in 1656). Knight. 1623-1693) of Quainton and Ditton s.p. s.p. Park (1608-1688).

ILLIAM READE. Baptized 19th April, 1601, at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Buried W 9th September, 1625, at St. Nicholas, Abingdon.

THOMAS READE, of Appleford, in the parish of Sutton Courtney, Berks, and Ipsden, Oxon, the heir presumptive of Sir Thomas Read~, was born at Barton Court. The Parish Register of St. Helen's, Abingdon, contains this entry: "Bapt. the 22 daye of February, 1606-7, Thomas, the son of Thomas Reade, Esquire, and of Marye his wife, and A RECORD OF THE REDES.

was born the second daye of the same monethe, Sir John Morrice, Sir George Tipping, Knights,* and Mris Isabell Brocket gossupes at the Baptism."

He matriculated Gen. Com. at Magd. Coll., Oxford, 2nd July, 1624, aged 17, and married without his father's consentt at Burford, Salop, 8th September, r 624, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, being six and a half years younger than his wife. Possibly owing to the displeasure of his father he resided continuously with his wife's relatives at Burford Castle.t The Burford Registers show that his children were baptized there. By her he had five sons§ and four daughters: Sir Compton, First Bart., of Shipton Court; Edward, of Ipsden; Thomas, of Appleford Cornewall; Geoffrey; Anne, who married Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, eldest son and heir of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Baron of Burford; Beatrice; Catherine, who married Bridstock Harford, M.P.; and Mary, who married John Cornewall, third son of Sir Gilbert Cornewall. He was buried at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop, 14th December, 1634, in the lifetime of his father, Sir Thomas, who survived until 1650.

MARY, wife of Thomas Reade, was the second daughter of Sir Thomas Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, Salop, called the " Great Baron " (by Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Gilbert Lyttleton, Knight, of Franckley, Worcester), and sister of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, who married Mary's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Reade.

Mary Cornewall was baptized at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop, 16th September,!! 1600, and married there 8th September, 1624.-(Parz'sk Registers).

In the will of her mother (nee Lyttleton), proved 1657, she is bequeathed £20. She is also mentioned in the will of her younger brother, George Cornewall, merchant, at Aleppo. -

*Sir George Tipping, Knight, who was one of the god-fathers of Thomas Reade, was the head of the elder branch of the ancient family of Tipping, of Draycott and \Vheatfield, Oxon, originally seated ail Typpynge Hall, Blackburn. He matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 20th December, 1577, aged 16; Knighted 30th July, 1605; married Dorothy, daughter of John Burlacy, Esq., of Little Marlow, Bucks, by the daughter of Robert Lytton, and this connection with the Lyttom, and consequently with the Brackets and Reades, accounts for his presence as god-father of Thomas Reade. Sir George Tipping's grand-daughter Elizabeth, married Sir John Cutler, Bart., and their daughter Efoiabeth, married Charles Bodville Robartes, Earl of Radnor.

tThere occurs an enigmatical sentence in the Verney MSS. Olaydon Hou8e Archives. Mary, Lady Verney, in reply to Road.es her steward, who had informed her by letter" he that is to have Reade's house sayes hee hath not the money," writes: "As for Poxon and Horsley they att Barton will not meddle with those, therefore they may stand. As for Reade, if Susan's match proceed as I hope itt will, that will be disposed and perhaps more in those parts, but keep than to yourself."

:t:In a letter from Mr. Brewerton, of Abingdon, to General Meredith Read, dated 9th October, 1886, the writer states: "Mr. E. Pullen, the present tenant of Appleford Manor, informed me that the Steeles were tenants of the Reade family for 200 years, and the wing of the old house facing the lawn was built by Mr. Reade to afford himself accommodation during the shooting seasons."

§He had, probably, another son, Thoma.s, who was buried 5th September, 1626 (Registers of St. Nicholas and St. Helen's, Abingdon.)

llThis is the date given in the extracts from the Registers of St. Mary's, BU1jord, certified by the Rev. J. Wayland Joyce, bub in The Geneaiogist, Vol. iv., p. 79, the date is given as 21st September, 1600, A RECORD OF THE REDES,

The Cornewall alliance gives descent from King John with the Bar Sinister.* KING JORN= IsABEL, heiress of Aylmer Count of Angoulesme. I RICHARD Dk CoRNEWALL, King of the Romans= I -, . RICHARD DE CoRNEWALL, son of the above Richard with the Bar Sinister=JoAN, daughter of Lord St. Owen. I-, tSir GEOFFREY DE CORNEWALL = MARGARET, daughter of Sir Hugh de Mortimer, Baron of Burford and I--, Lord of Wigmore, Sir RiCHARD CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford=SIBILLA BOTRINGHAM, I--, Sir GEOFFREY CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burford =CECILIA DE CoucI, daughter of the Earl of Bedford. '-1 RICHARD CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burford= CECILIA, daughter of Sir John Seymour, _I-I Sir EDMUND CoRNmWALL, Baron of Burford= secondly, ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas de la Barre. _I_ THOMAS CORNEWALL Baron of Burford= ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Rowland Lenthall, of Hampton Court, \ Hereford. -I Sir EDMUND CoRNEWALL, "The Strong Baron" =MARY, daughter of Attorney General Hoord. I_ I Sir THO.MAS CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford= ANNE, daughter of Sir Richard Corbet. _I_ I RICHARD CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burford=JANET, daughter of Henry Wogan, of Wiston, Salop. I -I THOMAS CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford = KATHERINE, daughter of John Harley, of Brampton Bryan I-, ancestor of the Earls of Oxford. Sir THOMAS CORNEWALL, called the "Great Baron"= :j:ANNE, daughter of Sir Gilbert Lyttleton of Franckley, I ancestor of the Lords Lyttleton and Viscounts Cobham. -I MARY C0RNEWALL = TaoMAS READE, of Barton Court, Berks, and Ipsden, Oxon. Of the above, Richard, King of the Romans, married first, Isabel, daughter of Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, widow of Gilbert, Earl of Clare; secondly, Sanchia, daughter of Raymond, Count of Provence, and sister of Queen Eleanor, consort of Henry III. of England; and thirdly, Beatrix, niece of Conrad,

*Mr. Evelyn Shirley asserted on the authority of the Her. Vis., 1623, that Richard De Cornewall (1) by his marriage with Sanchia of Provence had Richard De Cornewall (2), who was therefore legitimate. tOsborn Fitz Richard, one of the Barons of Domesday Book, left a son Hugh who= Eustachia De Saye, and was succeeded by Osborn Fitzhugh. He married Amicia de Clifford-sister of Fair Rosamond, and was a benefactor of Godstowe. Dying s. p.; he was succeeded by his brother, who took his mother's name and is known as Hugh de Saye. He married Lucia de Clifford, who= secondly Bartholomew de Mortimer. He was succeeded by Hugh de Saye in 1190, who= Mabel, daughter of Robert Marmyon. Their only child was Margaret de Saye who= Hugh de Ferrars, who died s. p.; Robert de Mortimer, by whom she had a son and heir, Hugh; and William de Stuteville. Hugh de Mortimer who succeeded her as Baron of Burford {circa 1260), died in 1274, and his heir was Robert de Mortimer, who= Joyce de la Zouche; as widow she held the Barony. Her son, Sir Hugh, succeeded in 1296, and was summoned to Parliament as Baron of Burford. His wife was Matilda (query Scrope?) They had issue two daughters: of whom Margaret, the younger inherited the Baronyof Burford,and married Sir Geoffrey de Cornewall, who took the Duke of Brittany prisoner, "wherefore he had given him for the field of his coat Ermine in lieu of Argent, and it is to be observed that in the Cornewall shield, if the engrailed bordures be omitted, the rest is the coat of Brittany, :j:There is a brass to this lady in Hagley Church. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Arch b_ishop of Cologne.. Hi~ son by_ his second wife, Edmund, . Earl _of C_ornewall, died without issue. Sir Richard Cornewall, m right of his mother, Margaret de Mortimer, inherited the Barony of Burford­ a barony which passed to his descendants. Sir Richard's nephew, Sir John Cornewall, was a man of mark, and a brave soldier. Having distinguished himself at a tournament at York, in 1400, he won the heart and hand of Henry the Fourth's sister, Elizabeth, widow of John, Duke of Exeter, and daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He was created K.G., was present at Agincourt, and on the departure of the King from France, was left in command of the English army. He was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Fanhope, Baron Cornewall, and Baron of Milbroke. He bore the first named title by preference, whence the lines of Michael Drayton respecting the melee at Agincourt. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made,- Still as they ran up ; Suffolk his axe did ply ; Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily ; Ferrers and Fanhope. Lord Fanhope lefb no legitimate issue, but his base born daughter, Constance, married John Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel. Thomas Cornewall was attainted 5th Edward IV. His fourth son, Sir Rowland Cornewall, was the ancestor of the Cornewalls of Berrington, whose most distinguished member was the Speaker Cornewall; and of the Oornewalls, of De!bury, from whom came Folliott Cornewall, . The Berrington Cornewalls are now represented in the female line-by the marriage in 1771 of Catherine Cornewall with Sir George Amyand, who assumed his wife's patronymic-by the Rev. Sir George Cornewall, Bart., of Moccas Court. Sir Thomas Cornewall was Knight Banneret at Tournay and Terouenne, tenip. Henry VIII. His grandson, Edmund (elder brother of the Thomas, who married Katherine Harley), surnamed "The Stout Baron," was a man of gigantic stature and strength. His walking-stick, bearing the legend "This is my defender," is still preserved, and stands as high as the shoulder of a man of medium height. Re measured seven feet four inches, verified by the fact of such being the exact length of his effig_y on the north side of the altar of Burford Church. He must have been a man of refinement, inasmuch as Babington records his dainty touch on the lute. On his monument are graven these lines: "Your debt you shall to nature pay, Therefore think oil the latter day, And pray to God that He may send You grace to meet your latter end. "For as you are, so once was I, And as I am, so shall you be ; Although that you be faire and younge, Wise, welthy, hardy, stoute, and strong." Sir Thomas Cornewall was styled "The Great Baron." His wife's will mentions a" Tablett or Jewell, given unto my late deceased husband, Sir Thomas Cornewall by Prince Henrie." This she bequeaths after his father's decease to Thomas Cornewall, her grandson, son and heir of her elder son, Sir Gilbert Cornewall. Descent from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. JOHN OF GAUNT= CATHERINE, daughter of Sir Pain Roelt. I I ANNE=Sir WILLIAM PASTON. I -1- ANNE PASTON == Sir GILBERT TALBOT. I I ELIZABETH TALBOT=Sir JOHN LYTTLETON. I S1r. JOHN LYTTLETON==BRIDGET,I daughter of s·1r John Packington. _I . I SIT GILBERT LYTTLETON= ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Humphrey Conyngsby. I I-- ANNE LYTTLETON=Sir THOMAS CORNEWALL. I I MARY CORNEWALL=THOMAS, son of Sir Thomas Reade. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

The following intermarriages took place between the Cornewalls of Burford and members of the Reade family:- ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Thomas Reade=Sir GILBERT CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford, in 1621-2. MARY CORNEWALL = on the 8th September, 1624, THOMAS READE, son of Sir Thomas Reade. Major THOMAS CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burford, son of Sir Gilbert Cornewall= ANNE READR, his first cousin, daughter of Thomas Reade and Mary Cornewall. His brother, JoHN CORNEWALL, of Rochford=ANNE READE'S sister, Mary. Sir COMPTON READE, son and heir of Thomas Reade= MARY CORNEWALL, sister of Major Thomas Cornewall, the Baron, and of John Cornewall, of Rochford. RICHARD READE, born 12th June, 1610, baptized 1st July following at St. Helen's, Abingdon, Berks. Living in 1623.* See Supplementary Chapter.

SIR JOHN READE, Knight and first Bart., of Brocket Hall, parish of Hatfield, and Minsden, Herts, and of Dunstew, Oxon, third son of Sir Thomas Reade, Knight, was born in 1617, being 46 years of age at the date of his second marriage in 1662-3; Knighted at Newmarket, 12th March, 1642; created a Baronet by Letters Patent bearing date 16th March, 1642 ; granted a fresh patent of baronetcy by Cromwell, June 25th, 1656, being the first hereditary honour awarded by him, and made out as "to his heirs "-an honour given probably at the instance of his connexion, Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, but nominally for a contribution offered towards the cost of the army in Ireland. Noble, in his life of Cromwell, in recording this fact mentions that during the Protectorate all honours granted by King Charles were ignored. Thus Sir John Reade, descended to be plain Esquire, whereas his father, who had been knighted by James I., continued to be styled Sir Thomas Reade. He was High Sheriff of Herts 1655; and was buried in the Reade and Brocket Chapel at Hatfield 6th February, 1694. Ad­ ministration of his effects granted 26th February, 1694, to Sir James Reade, Bart., his son and heir. Sir John, notwithstanding the fact that his grandfather, Thomas Reade, had a confirmation from the College of Arms of " Gules, a saltire between four garbs or," used as a shield, '' Azure, a griffin segreant or," (see Gwillim Abn'dged, by S. Kent, 1726, p. 553; and Burke's General Armory). This latter shield he combined with the crest which was used with the former shield, ,iz., on the stump of a tree raguly lying fessways vert a falcon rising proper, beaked and belled or, jessed gu. (see College of Arms MSS., E.D.N.). The arms "Azure a griffin segreant or" were borne by numerous families of the name of Reade, amongst them being the Reades of Whittlesey, in the Isle of Ely, the Reades of Folkestone, Kent, the Welsh Reades, and the Crewe Reads of Llandinam. In a tripartite indenture, dated 2nd January, 1640, between Sir Thomas Reade and his son Sir John Reade, the first baronet of Brocket, the latter is described as John Reade, Esq., son of the said Sir Thomas. He (with Charles Read and Thomas Tooke) is named as trustee in the marriage settlement of William Trott, Esq., with Sarah Camp, widow of Lawrence Camp. Indenture dated 18th November, 1645

*The strong probability of the junction of the house of Rossenara and Tipperary with the Barton line occurs here through this Richard, born 16l0. He is alleged by tradition to have gone to Ireland, and to have married an Irish lady. The two sons of Thomas Reade, viz. Richard and Geoffrey, have left no record: they disappeared, and their deaths are mentioned in no document either in the Dunstew or Ipsden lfiuniments, or in the Parish, Registers. Their having gone to Ireland, and being thereby estranged from their family may account for this silence concerning them. Their uncle Richard of Culham is stated to have also had descend­ ants domiciled in Dublin ( t'ide Chapter on the American branch). The first crest taken by the Rossenara and Tipperary line after its arrival in Ireland is stated to have been the "falcon rising" viz. that of Barton Court. A RECORD QF THE REDES.

(Kirtlington Munt'ments). He is mentioned in the will of his father, dated 28th June, 1650, and was appointed sole executor in trust to the will of his mother, dated 27th May, 1651. 0 Sir John Reade is mentioned in the Kzrtlington Muniments as second surviving son of Sir Thomas Reade in a document endorsed "Case between Compton Reade, Esq., complainant, and Sir John Reade, defendant, about Dunstew Manor," dated 1655. His father, Sir Thomas Reade, by indenture dated 2nd January, 1639, settled the mansion and certain lands of Dunstew on him (described as John Reade, Esq., his second son), and Susanne, his wife, for jointure. The said Sir Thomas covenanted with Richard Braythwayte and Augustyne Skynners, Esquires, that the said Manor of Dunstew, etc., should continue during the lifetime of John and Susanne of the yearly value of £500, the same being then only worth £400 per annum. In 1676 Sir John Reade purchased messuages at Dunstew of J. Thetcher, Gentleman, for £470. He bought the manor of Calthrop by a release, dated 20th January, 1679, between Hawten Maria Morgan, Esq.,* and Katherine Hawten, of the one part, and Sir John Reade of the other, for the sum of £2,070. They convey to Sir John Reade the Manor House of Calthrop, with the grounds and estate thereunto belonging, lying in Calthrop, N eithrop, Wykham, t Essington, and , in Oxon. Indenture dated 16th May, 1645, between Sir John Reade, knight and baronet, Charles Read and John Barrett, whereby Sir John demises all his messuages, etc., in Herts, Middlesex, and Oxon, to the said Charles Read and John Barrett for raising £6,000. Indenture dated on the same day, between the same parties, declares that the former indenture shall be void on the payment of 12d (Kzrtlington Muniments). Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall, Herts, knight, patron of the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Dunstew, confirms the advowson, nomination, presentation, and free disposition of Dunstew unto Susanna Reade, of Dunstew, his granddaughter, dated 16th December, 1674 (Kirtlington Archives). The Parish Registers of Hatfield, for the year 1657, mention a marriage on 9th July performed by Sir John Reade, knight and baronet. The following papers are preserved in the State Paper Department of the Public Record Office, concerning the summons on Sir John Reade to contribute to the war expenses:- " Sir John Reade, baronet, Hatfield, Herts. Assessed at £600, and summoned to pay. -24th March, 1646. Edward Barbor, Hertford, to the Committee for Advance of Money. Though Sir John Reade is a baronet, he is a very poor one, and can hardly pay his expenses. His wife's jointure being in Oxfordshire under the King's command, he has received nothing from it these two or three years. He lives in a park, and has a few deer, but the show is more than the substance, for he has a poor stock, and only a little money, which his father send (sic.) him. Yet he has paid his r-20 in the county, and is grieved to be unable to make loans. He is a right godly man, very active at committee, and as a J.P. in suppressing ale-houses. I wish all our knights were as cordial. I commend him to you."

*Calthorpe or Calthrop in 1606 belonged to Henry, son of Gerard Hawtayne, of Essington, mentioned in the Hern/d's Visn., of 1634. It passed from the Danvers family to Mary, daughter of Sir ,Tohn Doyly and Ursula, sister of Sir John Cope, and was the farmer's jointure on her marriage with Henry Hawtayne ( Vide. Beesly's History of Banbu1·y ). In 1634 it belonged to Thomas Hawtayne, who in 1637 conveyed it to Mary his mother who is said to have resided there in 1653. This Thomas manied Katherine, dau((hter of Sir W. Dunche, and first cousin of Oliver Cromwell. His brother Gernrd Hawtayne emigrated to Barba,loes ( Vide. A Cavalier Planter in Barhadues, by G. H. Hawtayne, C.M.G., and by the same author, Records of Old Barbadoes). tAt this date the major part of the parish of Wykham belonged to the Chamberlaynes, subsequently Lessees of Dunstew Manor, A RECORD OF THE REDES.

"3rd April, 1646. His assessment respited, his estate lying in Oxfordshire, and he being one of the County Commissioners for Herts." The ratio of the assessment was 1-2oth of the real and 1-5th of the personal estate; but the estimates were often so much too high that instances of their payment in full are extremely rare. A copy of King Charles II.'s Pardon to Sir John Reade, Bart., dated 7th June, 1660, on vellum, was in the possession of General Meredith Read. It appears to have been a general pardon for all manner of offences committed during the Civil War and the Commonwealth. He refused to pay the ship tax. The fact that he took office under the Protectorate and accepted a patent of baronetcy from Cromwell rendered him obnoxious to the dominant Cavaliers. There is an entry relating to this pardon under July (not June), 1660, in the Signet Office Docket Book, but there is no copy of it among the State Papers. Portions of the Pardon Document have become obliterated by time. The Great Seal is appended to it, and throughout the Document Sir John's name is si:,elt Read, although he signed himself Reade. The Rawlinson MSS., a. 248, f. 4z continued, contains in the Account of Patents passed from June, 1660, to April, 1664, the following item: "Five several pardons filed for Thomas Sheppard, William Blackwell, John Rede, Richard Pooley, and John Clerke, 5j-." There are further references to Sir John Reade in a book issued by authority in London, 1646, and entituled : "All the several ordinances made by the Lords and Commons concerning sequestring the estates of Delinquents, Papists, Spyes, and Intellegencers, with instructions to such persons as are employed in sequestring of such delinquents' estates."

P. 3, April 1, 1643. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the County of Hertford, Sir John Reade, Bart. An Act for the assessment for six months from 24th June, 1650, for the maintenance of the forces. Ordered to be printed. Hertford : William, Earl of Salisbury, Sir Richard Lucy, Knight and Baronet, Sir John Reade, to be Commissioners. Act for raising £120,000 for the maintenance of the forces, November 26th, 1650. Sir John Reade, Commissioner for Herts. Act for raising £90,000 as above. John Rede, Esq. Commissioner for Herts (p. 1619). Act for an Assessment, 10th December, 1652 (p. 1849), John Reade, Esq., Commissioner for Herts. Act of Parliament for an assessment of £100,000 by the moneth for six moneths. January 26th, 1659-60. County of Hertford, William Leman, Robert Cecil!, Brocket Spencer, John Reade, Commissioners. Act for an assessment, 1649. Hertford (p. 592). William Earl of Salisbury, Sir Richard Lucy, Sir John Reade, Sir Brocket Spencer, Bart., to be Commissioners. Husbands Ordinances, ,646 (p. 503), Queen's Coll. Archives. Die Jovis, 20th February, 1644. An ordinance for raising £120,000 for the Scottish Army by Assistant Committees. Herts, Viscount Cranborne, Robert Cecil, Sir John Garret, and Sir John Reade, Baronets, A RECORD OF THE REDES. 33

SUSANNE,* first wife of Sir John Reade, of Brocket, was second daughter of Sir Thomas Style, ofWateringbury, Kent, Bart. (so created 21st April, 1627), by Elizabeth, only daughter at:1d heiress of Robert Foulkes, Esq., of Mountnessing, Essex. Sir Thomas Style, Bart., was the only surviving son of Oliver Style, Esq., of W ateringbury, grandson of Sir Humphrey Style, Knight, of Langley, Kent, High Sheriff of Kent in the 35th year of Henry VIII. (1543), and one of the Esquires of the Body to that monarch; great-grandson o( Sir John Style, Knight, Alderman of London, temp. Henry VII. ; and great-great­ grandson of William Style, of Ipswich, Suffolk, who was ancestor of Sir William Henry Marsham Style, of Glenmore, Donegal, Ireland, 9th and present Bart.-(Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.) Susanne married 2nd January, 1640, a~d was buried in the Reade and Brocket Chapel, at Hatfield, 18th May, 1657. Arms of Style.-Sable, a fess or, fretty of the field, between three fleurs-de-lis gold; a bordure of the second. Crest-A wolf's head, couped sable, collared or, the lower part of the neck fretty of the last. Motto-En esperance de vie. The arms without the crest were granted to Sir Humphrey Style, Knight, of Langley, by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, 28th March, 1529. Sir Humphrey recited in his petition that not willing to bear arms in prejudice to the other branches of his family, he had petitioned for a coat with a proper difference.-( Burke's General Armory).

BY. Susanne Style Sir John Reade had five sons and four daughters. (See Chapter 9 on the Brocket Reades.)

ALISSIMON, the second wife of Sir John Reade, of Brocket, was of Hatton Garden, London, widow of the Honourable Francis Pierrepont, son of the Earl of Kingston-upon­ Hull. Born 1623. Marriage licence granted by the Bishop of London, she being then 40 years of age. Living 6th May, 168z, having- cohabited with her second husband only about three and a half years. Subjoined is a precis of the answer of the Lady Alissimon Reade . unto printed papers entitled "A True State of The Case betwixt Sir John Reade and Dame Alissimon his wife." She married him in 1662. The first part of the pamphlet relates to quarrels about marriage settlements, her allowance, &c. On her marriage she made over a lease for 1,000 years, with security of lands valued at £1,100, to Sir John, on condition of being paid by him £400 a year, the lands being in the natur

Her witnesses ~ay that she was alwavs submissive and never provoked him. She did not commence suit againRt him until he forbade her tenants to pay her rents from her separate estates, and denied her admittance to his Herts house. She then hacl to •ue for Allimonv (sic) in the Court of Arches, and won it, which was confirmed on his appeal to the Delegates. He then "declined his cause." She petitioned the King, who tried to mediate, but Sir John refused. She did not send a bailiff to arrest him, as alleged, until "the protection" was expired, but the King recommended her petition to the House of Lords, where it was retained until the next session. He has never, as alleged, requested her to return to cohabitation. She often begged for reconciliation, but he said" She might as well persuade him to forsake Jesus Christ," and th,it he should think himself damned if he did not forsake her. Nevertheless she sent at once to "devise a Treaty with him upon. good security," which he refused, though she took a house near him in Herts to give him opportunity. After all this he declared in the House of Lords that he never had an unworthy thought of her ! To his second printed paper (apparently a second edition) she answers that though he names witnesses he did not venture to call them in the Court of Delegates. Most of them are people who are in his power (too much so, in the case of some of the women, though that is not a matter to discuss in print). They would not stand cross-examination. Most of the complaints against him which be quotes were spoken to third parties, not to him ; many of them were never said at all. That she should have gone into "inconvenient and dangerous lodgings'' without being compelled [i.e. to the "out-room"] is absurd. He alleges that she plotted to .iccuse him of treasonable words; she admits that she said she would do so, but that was out of kindness, to prevent him from saying such things before others, who really might denounce him. (Much of this is supported by the depositions of various witnesses, most of whom appear to be domestics.)

GEOFFREY READE. So named from Sir Geoffrey Boleyn his great-grandmother's relative. He: is not mentioned in the will of his father, dated 28th June, 1650. He is stated by Mr. Edward A. Reade, C.B., of Ipsden House, in his MSS. History of the Reade fanuly, to have become estranged from his family in consequence of a divergence in political views, and to have gone over to Ireland or to America. Some of the pedigrees declare that he died without issue, but Mr. E. A. Reade says that this statement arose from confounding him with his nephew Geoffrey, son of his brother Thomas. There is no authenticated record of the death of either of the Geoffreys, or any proof that either of them died unmarried or without issue,,...

ELIZABETH, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., was baptized at St. Helen's, Abingdon, 15th August, 1599. She married Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, Salop (whose sister Mary married her brother Thomas), and was buried at Burford, 24th December, 1671. Will dated 15th December, 1671; proved at Hereford, 6th February following, by her son Edmund Cornewall. He is the only son mentioned. She also mentions her four daughters-Hannah Cornewall, Ursula Cornewall, Susan Cornewall, and Martha Rachell Cornewall. She had issue four sons and eight daughters. Two of her sons and one daughter, viz., Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, John Cornewall, and Mary Cornewall, married respectively their cousins (issue of her brother, Thomas Reade, Esq., by her husband's sister, Mary Cornewall), viz., Anne Reade, Mary Reade, and Sir Compton Reade, 1st Baronet, of Shipton Court. As will appear from the sequel Elizabeth Reade's youngest sister, Anne Reade, wife of Richard Winwood, having no daughters of her own adopted those of her sister, and later a great-niece, daughter of Edward Reade, of Ipsden. Of her sister Elizabeth's daughters by

*A Geoffrey Reade, of St. Pancras, London, bachelor, deceased, left effects which were administered by Thomail Fothergill, as hie principal creditor, on 10th December, 1649. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 35

Sir G. Cornewall whom Mrs. Winwood adopted, Elizabeth, styled of Ditton Park, Bucks, Mrs. Winwood's seat, died a spinster, and was buried at Quainton, Bucks, the family manor of the Winwoods. In her will she desires to be buried as aunt Winwood may think fit. Mentions her sisters, Anne, Susanne, Hannah, Ursula, and Dorothy Cornewall, also her brother John Cornewall and his children. Item her brother Compton Reade's children; and "to Mr. William Booyer (Bowyer), son of Sir William Booyer, the bond left me by my grandfather Reade." Item my uncle Win wood. Will dated 2nd May, 167 5, and proved by Martha Cornewall, sole executrix, in C.P .C., 18th March, 1667.

Another daughter of Elizabeth Reade and Sir Gilbert Cornewall, viz., Susanna, baptized at Burford, 14th March, 1642-who died unmarried 18th June, 1675, and was buried at Quainton-was also one of aunt Winwood's protegees. In her will, dated 10th October, 1673, she leaves rings to brother Thomas Cornewall, Sir Compton and sister Reade, and uncle and aunt Winwood. Will proved in C.P.C. by Anne Cornewall, 25th June, 1675.

Yet a third niece from among the Cornewalls was adopted by aunt Winwood, viz., Martha Rachell, baptized at Burford, 14th February, 1648. She died unmarried in 167 3, and was buried at Quainton. In her will, dated 2nd August, 1670, she specifies money in uncle Winwood's hands, and mentions brother Sir Compton Reade and his lady with their four children. Will proved in C.P.C., 7th January, 1673-4, by his sisters Anne and Susanna Cornewall. It should be added that Hannah Cornewall, sister of the above ladies, who died rn 167 5, mentions in her will, dated 28th October, I 67 5, and proved by her sister Dorothy, 25th October, 16 7S, Uncle Win wood at Ditto. Park and Cos ens (sic) Anne and Elizabeth Reade-Sir Compton Reade's daughters, and therefore her nieces, although she styles them cousins. In the will of Sir Gilbert Cornewall's mother, Anne Lyttleton, who died 30th January, 1656, occurs the following:-" I leave unto Sir Gilbert Cornewall my sonne a Tablett or J ewe]] given unto my late deceased husband, Sir Thomas Cornewall, by Prince Henrie " (elder brother of King Charles I.). She further mentions grandchild Compton Reade, and daughter Mary Reade. Item " my esteemed friend and kinsman Dr. Harford," whose son married her granddaughter, Catherine Reade. Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford, Salop, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Cornewall, Knight, Baron of Burford (called the "Great Baron"), and brother of Mary, wife of Thomas Reade, who was brother of Sir Gilbert's wife, Elizabeth Reade, was baptized at Burford, Salop, 6th June, 1598; matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 5th May, 161 S ( Foster's Alum. Oxon. erroneously states that he was then r 5 years of age) ; B.A. 21st March, 1616-7; knighted at Theobalds, December, 1620; M.P. for Bishop's Castle, Salop, 1621-2. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knight, and was buried in the chancel at Burford 5th October, 1671 1 leaving issue. Will dated 24th April, 1671 ; proved at Hereford 13th October following, by John Cornewall and Edmund Cornewall, his sons, and power reserved to the other executor, Francis Cornewall, testator's son. . In his will he is called Baron of Burford, in the county of Salop, Knight, and he desires to be buried in the chancel of Burford. Mentions wife Dame Elizabeth Cornewall ; daughters Anne Cornewall, Hannah Cornewall, Ursula Cornewall, Susannah Cornewall, Dorothy Cornewall, and Martha Cornewall; to grandchild Thomas Cornewall " my signett A RECORD OF THE REDES. seal of armes ; " eldest son Thomas Cornewall, Esq.; three sons, Mr. Francis Cornewall, Mr. John Cornewall, and Mr. Edmund Corne wall, executors.

Sir Gilbert Cornewall, like his father-in-law, was an active Royalist. In consequence of the part he played, the Parliamentarian Governor of Ludlow in 1645 demolished his mansion, Stapleton Castle. ( Robinson's Mansions of Herefordshire).

From the sequel it will appear that from 1624 to 1695 the Cornewalls and Reades formed an united family. Apart from the five intermarriages, plus the alliance with the Harfords and Actons, of which anon, Anne Reade, wife of Richard Winwood, gave a home to three daughters of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, while the Burford registers show that the children of Thomas Reade, and his grandchildren also, were born at Burford. Arms of the Cornewalls, Barons of Burford.-Erm. A lion ramp. gu. ducally crowned or, within a bordure sa. bezantee. The Leghs of High Legh as representing the family in the female line, still use the lions as supporters.

ELIZABETH, second daughter of Sir Thomas Reade was buried 4th April, 1600, at Dunstew, in infancy.

FRANCES, third daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., and wife of Sir William Russell, Bart., Lord of the Manor of Strensham, Worcestershire, was baptized 8th January, 1603, at Dunstew, Oxon, and was married there rst December, 1624 ( Dunstew Registers). They had issue eight sons and three daughters. Her sixth son, Francis, who succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1669, married his cousin Anne, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton, Knight, of Knebworth, Herts; and their eldest daughter, Mary, married first, Wingfield (Cromwell), 2nd Earl of Ardglass, and secondly, Charles Cotton, Esq., of Beresford Hall, Notts, the Angler and Poet.

The youngest son of Sir William Russell by Frances Reade, viz. Henry, M.A., Oxon, and of the Inner Temple, took out a license to marry Anne Raves, of Dunstew, in 1666, but the lady married Sir Robert Jason, of Broad Somerset, and he died unmarried in 1668, and was buried in the Temple Church.

His sister Anne married Sir Thomas Millington, and proved a very good friend to her cousin, Edward Reade, of Ipsden. Of Sir Francis Russell's daughters, Anne, married (1) Sir , Bart., ( z) Richard Lygon, of Madresfield, (3) Sir John Guise; her sister Elizabeth married William Dansey, of Brinsop, Herefordshire. With Sir Francis, the direct line of the Russells of Strensham ended, and the family is represented partly by collateral branches, partly by the Hornyolds. Arms of the Russells, less 14 quarterings.-Arg., a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchee sa.

SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, Bart., Lord of the Manor of Strensham, Worcester, son and heir of Sir Thomas Russell, Knt., M.P. for Worcestershire, 1601 (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Sir William Spencer, Knt., of Yarnton, Oxon, and sister of Sir Thomas Spencer, first Baronet, of Yarnton); was born in 1602 ; matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, 12th May, 1620, aged 18; student of the Middle Temple> 1621 (as son and heir of Thomas, of Streynsham, Worcester, Knight), and of Gray's Inn, 163 r, as treasurer of the King's Navy; M.P. for Worcestershire; created a Baronet, 12th March, 1626-7. A RECORD OF THE RE.DES. 37

The Russells, or Roussels, were a family of great antiquity, dating from the Conquest. Through the Hodingtons and Arundels they descended from Adeliza, daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine, the consort of Henry L, who married as her second husband William de Albenio, Earl of Arundel. Sir William Russell was related, through the Spencers, to the mother of Frances his wife, viz., Mary, daughter of Sir John Brocket. Sir William acted a conspicuous part in support of the royal cause during the Civil War, and devoted a considerable portion of his fortune to the service of the king ; yet, notwith­ standing that diminution, his estate was valued at £3,000 a year when the order of the Royal Oak was projected. The following is quoted from Nash's Worcestershire:-" In the propositions offered by Mr. Henry Washmgton, governor of Worcester, for the surrender of that town to Mr. Edward Whalley, commander of the Parliament forces, who lay at Mr. Fleet's, of Hollow, in the year r646, the thirty-first article was, that the several garrisons of Worcester, Evesham, Strensham, Hartlebury, and Madresfield, should be disgarrisoned, and the Bishop of Worcester, Sir William Russell, and Colonel Lygon, he restored to the possession of their houses and estates. In the treaty negotiated soon after, concerning the surrender of Worcester, between Mr. Washington and Major-General Raynesborough, it was insisted upon by the latter that Sir William Russell should be exempted from the benefit of -the treaty. This caused a long delay. Sir William was much pressed to escape in disguise, which he refused, saying he would willingly surrender himself for the public good, he had but a life to lose, and it could not be better spent. Upon his resolute refusal to escape or stop the treaty any longer, the noblemen and gentlemen thinking themselves bound in honour, signed a letter to Sir , desiring that Sir William Russell might have the benefit of the treaty, and that he could not by any other means so much oblige the county. Sir Thomas replied that Sir William Russell should be used as a gentleman and be prisoner to Major-General Raynesborough. He afterwards compounded with the Parliament Committee for £1,800 and £50 a year settled upon his estate." Sir William Russell died in 1669, aged 67, and was buried at Strensham. He is supposed to have fired his nephew Sir Compton Reade with his own enthusiasm for the cavalier cause, and Mr. John Edmund Reade affirmed that the latter was present with his uncle at the siege of Worcester. As Mr. J. E. Reade had opportunities prior to 1843 for studying such muniments at Shipton Court as were destroyed during the lifetime of Sir John Chandos Reade, he was probably a trustworthy witness.

MARY, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., married, as his first wife, Sir Robert Dormer, Knt., Lord of the Manors of Crendon, Dorton, and Chearsley, Bucks. She was baptized at St. Helen's, Abingdon, 14th July, 1608, and had issue four sons, of whom one only, Robert, survived his parents. He married, 1st Lady Katherine Bertie, third daughter of Montagu, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, K.G., and by her had a son who died vit. pair., and secondly, r668, Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Cottrell, Knight, of Rousham, Oxon, D.C.L., to Charles I., II., and James II., and during the Protectorate served as Steward to the Queen of Bohemia. He was M.P. for Cardigan, Ambassador at Brussels, and Master of Requests. He was knighted at Oxford, 2 r st March, r 644-5, and translated Cassandra and Davila's History of the Civil Wars. The issue of this marriage was John Dormer, of Roush am, who married Diana,

SIR ROBERT DORMER, Knt., Lord of the Manors of Crendon, Dorton, and Chearsley, Bucks,* eldest son and heir of Sir John Dormer, Knt., High Sheriff of Bucks, 1596, a branch of the Dormer family from which sprang the gallant cavalier, Earl of Carnarvon, who fell at the battle of Newbury, and the present Baron Dormer. Sir Robert was born in 1590; matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 17th January, 1600-1, aged II; was of the Inner Temple, 1608; and was knighted uth September, 1617. He married firstly, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., by whom he had issue four sons; and secondly, the daughter of Sir William Hamond, Knt., of St. Albans, Herts. Sir Robert Dormer died 12th May, 1689, and was buried at Crendon, Bucks. The Dormers, originally D'Ormer-the sea of gold-were much connected with The City, albeit the principal branch, the Earls of Carnarvon, Viscounts Ascott and Barons Dormer were chevaliers, while the juniors became bourgeois, e.g. Ambrose D'Ormer, to whom was erected a magnificent monument in Church, Oxon, was a woolstapler of Thame, and his son Sir Michael was Lord Mayor of London. Arms of Dormer.-Az. ten billets, four, three, two, and one, or, on a chief of the second a demi-lion issuant sa., armed and langued gu. Supporters of the Barons Dormer.­ Two falcons' wings inverted, arg., legged and beaked or, belled gu.

ELLEN, the fifth daughter, was living in 1623. Died s.p. 1669.

MARGARET, the sixth daughter, was mentioned by her maiden name in the will of her father 28th June, 1650. Living 1623. She is alleged to have married Sir Francis Russell, Kn t. t ANNE, seventh daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., became the wife of Richard Winwood, Esq., of Quainton and Ditton Park, near Colnbrook, Bucks. She was living in 1623, died 1st March, 1693, and was buried at Quainton, Bucks, M.I., having had no issue. She adopted her grand niece, Mary, daughter of Edward Reade, of Ipsden, Oxon, and afterwards the wife of General William Mackintosh, of Borlum, Inverness-shire, N.B., and by her influence obtained for her the post of maid of honour to the Princess, afterwards Queen Anne, grand-daughter of Sir Compton Reade's near neighbour, in Oxon Lord Clarendon. '' Aunt" Win wood's name occurred frequently in letters formerly in the muniment chest at Ipsden, but apparently now missing. She was lady-bountiful to her nieces ; and resided chiefly at Ditton Park (since then the mansion of the Dukes of Buccleuch, and now of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu); she must have entertained Royalty, inasmuch as the above letters from Ditton contained more than one reference to "the dear Princess." They were written by Mary Reade, then about sixteen years of age, to the family party at Ipsden House. Probably the young lady met her future husband at Ditton Park. Aunt Winwood's benevolence to her Cornewall nieces has already been recorded.

* Researches of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Societ,l' state: "The Reade.s, then spelt Rede, were Lords uf the Manor of Hampton Poyle, which is the next village to Dunstew, and both are near to Boarstall, where a branch of the Redes was seated. The Manor passed through the Redes to the Bury family, and through the female co-heiress to a branch of the Dormer family. Catharine Rede died m 1489, and was buried in the Church, to whom she left an endowment. Two tombs, one of a Crusader, and the othe~ that of a lady, possibly Catharine Rede, still exist." tA Sir Francis Russell was Knighted at Whitehall 30th March, 1607 (Metcalfe's Book of Knights, 1426- 1660, p. 157). But it seems improbable that he could have been Margaret Reade's husband, inasmuch as he was the contemporary, if no~ the senior, of her father. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 39

RICHARD WINWOOD, Esq., of Ditton Park, near Colnbrook, Bucks, Sergeant-at­ Law and Deputy Lieutenant for Bucks, son and heir of the Right Hon. Sir Ralph Win~ood, or Waynwoode, Knt., of Ditton Park, and previously of Northamptonshire, principal Secretary of State temp. King James I., and sister of Anne, who married Edward (Montagu), second Baron Montagu. (See Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages.) Sir Ralph Winwood, who was born in 1563, matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, 2oth December, 1577, aged 14; demy Magdalen College, 1578-82; B.A. 3rd November, 1582; Fellow, 1582-1601; M.A., 22nd June, 1587; B.C.L., 5th February, 1590-1; Proctor 1592; D.C.L. supd. 6th July, 1594 (as son of Lewis Winwood, of Aynho, Northants); knighted at Richmond, 28th June, 1607; ambassador to the Low Countries; a member of Gray's Inn, 1617; M.P. for Buckingham, 1614; appointed principal Secretary of State 29th March, 1614 (that office having remained vacant from 24th May, 1612, the date of the death of Sir Ralph's predecessor, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury), which post he filled until his death, 26th or 27th October, 1617; buried in Little St. Bartholomew's Church, London. (Foster's Alum., Oxon, and Genealogiwl Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley, Vol. I., p. 31 r.) Richard Win wood, who was born in 1608, was a man of opulence. Datchett, near Windsor, was one of his estates. He erected the almshouses* at Quainton, Bucks, in 1687.

*Gentleman's Magazine Libra,·y, EngUsh Topography, Vol. I., pp. 320-322; Gentleman's lYiagazine, 1817, Part II., l,18-420. Winwood's almshouses at Quainton, founded 1687 by Richard Win wood, Esq., son and heir of Sir Ralph. He had a large estate in Bucks, and resided occasionally at Denham, about a quarter mile from Quainton Church, on the site now occupied by a moated farmhouse. Inscription, with date, over door of almshouses; arms above; dexte,·, quarterly, 1 and 4 arg., a cross crosslet sa.; 2 and 3 arg., three fleurs-de-lis sa.; sinister Reade arms. Crest, a black eagle rising out of a marquis'9 coronet, or circlet of gold set with vales and strawberry leaves alternately. A farm of 120 acres settled on the almshouses. Richard Winwood is buried in a cbapel attached to the church, with effigies of himself and his wife. Ann Reade, on a raised tomb surrounded by railings. Hrn helmet and crest are hung on the wall, Inscription states he was a deputy­ lieutenant under Charles IL, married Ann Reade, and died 28th June, 1688, in his 80th year. Monument put up by his widow, 1689. She is buried there; died 1st May, 1691. Also in the vault are her three nieces, Elizabeth, Susanna, and Martha Rachael, daughters of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knt., Baron of Burford. CHAPTER IV.

ISSUE OF THOMAS READE BY MARY CORNE WALL.

THOMAS, heir of Sir Thomas Reade=rMARY, dau. of Sir Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford (1606-34). I (1600-J. I Sir COMPTON=MARY (1627-1703), dau. of Sir Gilbert EDWARD THOMAS=ANNE KNAPP. (1626-79). Cornewall, Baron of Burford. (see Chapters 6 and 7), (1628-1701). (1623-1704). (For issue see next Chapter). COMPTON (1662-). EDWARD (1663, living 1687). THOMAS (1673-4). ANNE= Rev. JOHN BICKLEY (d. 1713). (1652-1702). DOROTHY=EDWARD BARTLETT (1661. Ii ving in 1679). Lucy (1664, living in 1679). HENRIETTA MARIA (1665-1729) =DAVID EDMONDS of Margam. FRANCES (1666). SUSANNA (1) (1668-9). SUSANNA (2)=OAPTAIN MARCH (1670-91).

I I I CORNEWALL GEOFFREY ANNE (1630-91)=Major THOMAS CoRNEWALL, BEATRICE, (1633-42). (1634, living in 1650). issue. Baron of Burford (died 1686). (1631-4). ~I'---'-----'---"-'"----"-'------"------~------I I CATHERINE=BRIDSTOCK HARFORD, M. P. MARY=JOHN CORNEWALL, of Rochford (1632-65). I (died 1683). (1635-). (died 1685). -I- issue. BRIDSTOOK HARFORD, junior, M.P. (died s. p. 1713).

SIR COMPTON READE, first Baronet, third creation, Lord of the Manors of Beedon and Barton, Berks, Denford, Northants, and of Shipton Court, in the parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, High Sheriff of Berks, 1663, and patron of Beedon, 1672, eldest son and heir of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton Court, and Appleford, Berks. and of Ipsden, Oxon, and brother of Anne Reade and Mary Reade, who married respectively Sir Compton's wife's brothers, Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, Salop, and John Cornewall, Esq., of Rochford, Herefordshire. MARY, dang-hter of Srn GILBERT CoR~EWALL, Baron of Burford, wife of Sm Co,1noo1 R1nm:, Knight of the Royal Oak and Baronet. (1627-1703). (From the original portrait by 1\lrs. Beale, in the possesbion of the late Sir John Chandos Reade, Bart.)

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He was baptized at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop, 24th January, 1625-6; *matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1st July, 1642, aged 16; was created a Baronet by Letters Patent bearing date 4th March, 1660-r, for his splendid services to the Royal cause during the Civil War. In the Matriculation Registers of the University of Oxford, Sir Compton's name is spelled Reade, and in an instrument dated 14th May, 1651, he is described as " Compton Read, of the pansh of Dunstewe, in the County of Oxon, Esq." He signed his name invariably Reade. Shipton Court was purchased by Sir Compton from Rowland Lacy (afterwards Sir Rowland Lacy) 17th November, 1663. The demesne adjoined his lands in Fulbrook and Taynton, styled in the settlement of Sir Thomas, 4th Baronet, "the ancient inheritance." Sir Compton Reade married, at Dunstew, in 1650, his cousin Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knt., Baron of Burford, Salop. He died 29th September, 1679, and was buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, M.I. Witness to the assignment of Ipsden to his brother Edward, countersigned by Speaker Lenthall, 16 5 1. He was placed first on the list of Knights of the Royal Oak for Berks. According to the late John Edmund Reade, he was in Worcester with his uncle, the Cavalier Russell, during the siege. He raised a troop of horse and fought throughout the war for the King, and defended Barton Court until it was burnt over his head. The Baronetcy is on the Patent Roll 13, Car. 2, p. 3, No. 6, and in the same year, Patent Roll 13, Car. 2, part 21, No. 31, there is a discharge to him of £r,095-the fee payable for the baronetcy. In the former entry he is described as of Barton, Berks, and the date is 1660 ; in the latter, 166 r. There is an item in the Cal. of State Papers, December 18th, r663, thus:-" The King to Sir Compton Reade, High Sheriff for Berks, grants him license to reside out of the county during his term of Shrievalty, he having no fit residence in it." This shows that both Barton and Beedon were then in ruins.

Beedon lying near Newbury, the scene of two battles, and being the home of a malignant, i.e., cavalier, was utterly demolished. Sir Compton, late in life, erected the present manor house on the site of Alice De Lisle's ancient mansion. The date of the defence of Barton is not as yet established. Mr. John Edmund Reade fixed it at after the siege of Worcester. In the Gentleman's Magazine for August, 1897, is an account of the attempt on Abingdon made by Prince Rupert, in March, 1646. The elaborate plan of attack has been preserved in the Rupert Papers, Civil War Tracts. In this plan no mention is made of Barton House, or Palace; but in a letter, included in the C~vil War Tracts from Colonel Payne to G~neral Browne, it is stated that "the enemy came between Thrupp and N orcot to Barton House, where they kept covert till daylight, and lay still after the Ra value ( reveille) was beaten, &c., &c." In a letter in the Tanner MSS., the writer says:­ " The enemy about six o'clock this morning, as soon as the Ravaley had beat, appeared in a tull body both of horse and foot from Barton House, \vhere it is conceived they had long before lodged," thus showing that Barton was made the pivot of a venture which ended in failure. Shortly after, the newspapers en the Parliament side stated that General Browne, after demanding supplies for the reduction of the enemy's garrisons, adjacent to Abingdon, "hath

* General Meredith Read states that he was born in Berks. 6 A RECORD OF THE RE.DES. a design to smoke them out.'' This design was carried into execution. After playing on the massive walls of the old Abbot's Palace, and in such wise that cannon balls were extracted from the masonry as late as forty years ago, fire was employed to effect an entrance, and evidences thereof are still conspicuous in the ruins. Afterwards there must have been a sharp contest, for the timbers of the farmhouse which were constructed, temp. Car. 2, from the debris, show marks of bullets. It was for this service especially that Sir Compton Reade headed the list of the gentlemen of Berks when the order of the Royal Oak was contemplated, and was created Baronet. It should be added that Sir Compton's troop of horse and gallant defence of his grandfather's mansion were favourite topics with tbe late John Reade, of Ipsden, who could just remember his grandfather John, who again was a schoolboy when Edward, Sir Compton's brother, and his grandfather died. In 1646, Sir Compton, although he had served three years during the Civil War, was a few months under age, and therefore the omission of the name of one so junior is hardly a matter of surprise. That his services were appraised at their true value the rewards assigned him at the Restoration amply demonstrate.

1664.-Recoveries, Hilary, 15 and 16 Charles II., roll 46. Oxon. -Alex. Reade, gent., recovers against Compton Reade, Baronet, 3 messuages, 6 gardens, 30 acres of pasture and one (acre) of wood with appurtenances in Shipton-under­ Wichwood, Rowland Lacy, Esquire, being vouchee.

Ibid, roll 48. Berks.-Edward Hutton, gent., recovers against Charles Holloway, Sergeant-at-Law, 4 messuages, 5 gardens, mo acres of land, 10 of meadow, I 2 of furze and heath and common of pasture for all cattle with appurtenances in Sonningwell, Wootton, and Radley, Compton Reade being vouchee,

General Meredith Read, among other family documents, possessed a Terrier of the lands of Sir Compton Reade in_ Denford, and adjoining parishes, Northants. Also the marriage settlement of his daughter Elizabeth on her marriage with Sir Fairmedow Penystone, Bart., the latter being what is called a noble deed.

1664.-Feet of Fines, Hilary, 15 and 16 Charles II., county Oxford.

Fine between (Sir) Compton Reade, Bart., plaintiff, and Rowland Lacy, Esquire, deforciant, of three messuages, three gardens, three orchards, thirty acres of pasture, and one acre of wood, with appurtenances, in Shipton-under-Whichwood.

Deforciant quitclaims from him and his heirs to plaintiff and his heirs, and will warrant against the heirs of (Sir) John Lacy, Knt, his father, and of ,(Sir) Rowland Lacy, Knt., his grandfather, and of (Sir) John Lacy, Knt., his great-grandfather, deceased.

For this Fine Sir Compton gave to the said Roland £ mo.

Shipton Court was built by Rowland Lacy's grandfather. A good illustration of the garden front, facing south, is given in Ske!ton's Oxfordshire. It is wainscotted throughout, the style being Elizabethan.

* General Meredith Read possessed one of these cannon balls, the late Sir John Chandos Reade another, and the late Mr. Trendell, Mayor of Abingdon, a third. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 43

In The Natural History of Oxfordshire, by Robert Plot, LL.D., occurs the following references both to Sir Uompton and his newly acquired mansion :- Page 2'il, par. 129. Whereunto might be added several structure:, of the minor nobility that show a great deal of past or present magnificence, such as that of the Right Worshipful Sir Anthony Cope, late of Hanwell; of Sir John Cope at Bruern Abbey ; the LaAiy Spence!' at Yarnton; Si,· Robert D rshwuod at Northbrook; Sir John Curson at ; Sir Edward Cobb at A.dderbury; ::-lir Anthony Cr,i,ven at C,i,versbam; Sir William Glyn at Amersden; Sir Robert Jenkinson at Walcot; Sir John Walter at Saresden; 8ir F'airmedow Penyston at Cornwel; SiT Cornpton Reade at 8hipton-under- Wychwood; Sir Thomas Tipping at Whitfield; Sir John D'Oyly at Chislehampton; Sir Edward Norreys at Weston-on-the-Green; Sir Henry Ashurst at Waterstoke; Sir Simon Harcourt ,i,t Stanton H,i,rcourt; Sir Henry Johnson at Water Eaton. And of the Worshipful 1:homas ,i,t Watlington Park and Stonor, EsC[. ; Anth. Keck at Great Tew, Esq.; John Dormer at Rou~h,am, l!,'sq.; Richard J!'ermor at Tusmore and Somerton, Esq.; Carlton, Stone at Brighlwei, Esq.; ,i,t , Esq.; Thomas Hoard at Coat, Esq.; Arthur Jones at Chasleton, Esq.; Basil Brook at North-Aston, Esq.; and the seats of the families of Knolles at Rotherfield Grays, and Blount at Maple Durham, Esqs. Page 77, par. 28. And yet the moisture of water has no such power over it (free-stone), but that they make of it troughs and cisterns, and now of late mesh-fats for brewing; first hinted, 'tis true, by Mr. Bayley, of Ducklington, but practised Ly one Mr. Veysey, of Teynton, who had the first made him by one Strong, ,i, mason, which it seems did answer expectation so well that it has since obtained in many other places. Of these, that generot1s and courteous gentleman, Sir Compton Reade, of Shipton-11.nde1·- Wµchwood, has one that holds about sixty-five bushels, drawn home with no less than one and twenty horses; they ordinarily mesh it in three quartArs of mault, but can, when at any time necessity requires, mesh five at a time, the dimensions of which vessel of one single stone, taken within the hollow and ,i,bating its thickness, because of its vast unusual magnitude, I thought fit to note, and give as followeth :- Long, 2 Yards 1-8. Broad, 1 Yard 1-8 and 1-2 an Inch. Deep, 1 Yard 1-2. Yet much larger than this might be had from the Quarry, were there use for them, or could portage be contrived ; for as I was informed by many credible witnesses, there was one single stone dug in this Quarry containing no less than three hundred tuns. · In the Will of Sir Compton Reade (dated 9th September, proved 6th November, 1679) is the following :-"I give unto my loving friend, Mr. John Jordan,* of Burford, whom I intend shall be one of the executors of this my Will, the sume of£ 20, to be paid him within three months of my decease, so that within that time he duly prove this Will and take upon him the execution thereof. And my Will is that if the said John Jordan shall be put to any charges, expenses, or trouble, that he shall detain of my estate until my other executor hereinafter named shall reimburse, satisfy, or recompense him for the same." A document in the possession of Herbert V. Reade, of Ipsden, Esq., affords evidence to the extent of Sir Compton Reade's possessions. They are thus catalogued :­ " Denford Manor, Northants, with lands in Ringstead, Rawnds, and Wold. Manor of Byddon, alias Bedon, or Buddon; Manor of Appleford, alias Ap\eford ; Manors of Barton and Stanmore, Berks. Land in Peasmore, Long Witnam, Didcotts, Sutton Courtney, Abingdon and Pomney, Berks, Rectory, parsonage, and advowson of Beedon cum Stanmore. Another document is a recovery dated July, I 679 (30th Car. 2 ), between Sir Compton Reade, of Shipton under Withwood (sic.) and Get>. Whitney of Shipton, John Jordan of Burford (Oxon), and Benjamin Barron of Westcott, or Westwell, Glos., and Gyles Poole, of Broadwell Grove, Oxon. His name occurs in several of the Ipsden deeds, coupled with signatures of various mem1lf:!rs of the Cornewall family, and relating to the Ipsden branch. . *Mr.Jordan was the lawyer of Burford (Oxon) and his family for two or more generations transacted husmess for the Reades. It was tbe son of the above gentleman who advised the family n,,t to contest the sub-division of the lirocket estates at the decease of the last b,i,ronet of the line in 1712. Having regard to these r~lati~ns, it seems all the more extraordinary that Mr. Jordan, the historian of Enstone, should h,i,ve s~,i,ted m his book that a , of Enstone, having named his son Compton in 1663 provt>.d him to_ ~e an ancestor of the Shipton Reades. A more amusing and ignorant fiction never was exploited. The origm of the namQ Compton has already been explained. 44 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

MARY, wife of Sir Compton Reade, first baronet, third creation, of Barton Court, Berks, and of Shipton Court, in the pansh of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, was the eldest daughter of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knt., * Baron of Burford, Sal op, by Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Reade, Esq., fathar-in-law of Lady Reade, who consequently married her first cousin, She had two brothers, Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, and John Cornewall, Esq., who married respectively Anne and Mary, her husband's sisters. She was born in 162 7 ; is mentioned in the will of her maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, dated 28th June, 1650, and appointed by him sole executrix; and mentioned also in her husband's will, dated 9th September, 1679; died 26th April, 170:,, t aged 76 years, and was buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, M.l.

*The following is taken from Foster's Royal Descents;­ EDWARD I, = ELEANOR OF CASTILE. -'I JOAN OF AORE=GILBERT DE CLARE. I I ELEANOR DE CLARE= HUGH DE SPENOEll, I I EDWARD DE SPENCER= ANNE FERRERS of Groby. ,-I EDWARD, K.G., Baron De Spencer=ELIZABETH BURGHERSH. I I MARGARET DE SPENCER= ROBERT FERRERS of Chartley. I I EDMUND FERRERS = ELLEN DE LA ROOHE. ,-I WILLIAM FERRERs=ELIZABETH BELKNAP. ,J I ANNE FERRERs=Sir WALTER DEVEREUX, K.G., Baron Ferrers of Chartley. I I ELIZABETH DEVEREUX= Sir RIOHARD CORBET, I I ANNE CORBET= Sir THOMAS CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford, Ic------' RICHARD CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford=JANET WOGAN, I I THOMAS CoRNEWALL,____ ! Baron of Burford= KATHERINE HARLEY' I Sir THOMAS CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burfo:·d = ANNE, dau. of Sir Gilbert Lyttleton. I I MARY 00RNEWALL=THOMAS READE.

tThe Genealogist, Vol. IV., p. 82, is wrong in giving the date of her death as 20th April, 1703, A RECORD OF THE REDES. 45

Will dated 16th November, 1702; proved 9th December, 1703, in C.P.C. For the issue of Sir Compton and Mary Reade, nee Cornewall, see next Chapter. The second son of Thomas Reade, of Barton Court, Appleford and Ipsden, by Mary Cornewall, was EDWARD. For details concerning this gentleman vide in.fra at Chapter 6.-The Ipsden line, part I. The third son was THOMAS READE, Lord of the Manor of Appleford, Berks, aged 36 years, 1664-5; baptized 10th August, 1628, at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop. His estate of Appleford passed to the elder branch represented by Sir John Chandos Reade, and was sold by him to the family of Eyston on the 4th February, 1835, and is now in the possession of Charles Eyston, Esq., of East Hendred House, Wantage, Berks. In 1682 Sir Edward Reade was Lord of the Manor of Appleford, and Thomas Reade his tenant. He died at Appleford 8th March, 170,, in the 7 znd year of his age; buried I 1th March following in Church, Berks, M.I. Will dated 18th December, 1693, proved 19th May, qor, in C.P.C. He signs his will Thomas Reade; Vis. of Berks 1664-6 spells his name Read. Mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, 28th June, 1650. The wife of Thomas Reade, of App1eford, was ANNE, daughter and co-heir of Henry Knapp, Esq., of Woodcot, in the parish of Southstoke, Oxon, who was aged 70 years, 1668; born 1633. Married at S. Crosse (Holywell) parish, Oxford, 7th March, 1657 (Wood MS., D. 5, p. 12). Buried 21st February, 1704, aged 7I years, in Long Wittenham Church, M.I. She wa5 sole executrix of the will of her husband, dated 18th December, 1693. The Knapp family is of antiquity in the county of Oxon, and still owns a considerable estate at Headington, a suburb of Oxford. By this lady Thomas Reade had three sons and seven daughters. So far as is known, not a single descendant of this numerous progeny exists. Subjoined are all the data available.

(1) COMPTON READE, eldest son and heir. Baptized 17th June, 1662, at Appleford; aged 2 years 14th March, 1664. Died before 7th April, 1687, as appears from the will of his father, bearing date 18th December, 1693. It is not known whether he married, or had issue. (2) EDWARD READE, baptized 18th August, 1663, at Appleford. By Katherine, daughter of . he had (1) Thomas, born 1693, (2) Anne, (3) Hesther, vide infra under Henrietta Maria. Adm. 29th July, 1693. Herala's Coll. Cullect., I.P. 87,

(3) THOMAS READE, baptized 25th September, 1673, at Appleford. Buried there 16th March, 1674.

(4) ANNE, married to Rev. John Bickley, 7th March, 1684, ,at Appleford. Died 3rd August, 1713; buried in Long Wittenham Church, M.I., having had issue, a daughter, Lewes, who was baptized at Appleford 26th December, 1685, and was buried 3rd June, 1710, at Long Wittenham Church, M.I. Mentioned in the will of her father, dated 18th December, 1693.

REV. JOHN BICKLEY, Vicar of Long Wittenham, Berks, and also Rector of , Oxon. Born 1652; died 5th November, 1702, aged 50 years. Buried in Long Wittenham Church, M.I. Mentioned in the will of his father-in-law, Thomas Reade, dated 18th December, 1693. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

(5) DOROTHY, baptized 29th May, 1661, at Banbury, Oxon. Married 18th April, 1697, at Appleford, to Edward Bartlett, Esq., of Carfax, Oxford. Mentioned in the will of her father, dated 18th December, 1693.

EDWARD BARTLETT, of Carfax, Oxford. Arms of Bartlett (from St. Martin's Church, Oxford, being the arms of Richard Bartlett, Visit., Oxon): Azure, three annulets (or crescents) argent. ( Burke's General Armory.)

(6) Lucv, baptized 7th November, 1665, at Appleford; living 1679. Mentioned in the will of her uncle, Sir Compton Reade, 9th September, 1679, as his god-daughter; also mentioned in the will of her father, dated 18th December, 1693.

(7) HENRIETTA MARIA, baptized 30th November (St. Andrew's Day), 1665, at Appleford; married there 17th December, 1702, to David Edmonds, Esq. Mentioned in the will of her father, dated r 8th December, 1693, and in that of her niece, Mrs. Hesther Reade, of Margam, Glamorgan, dated 7th March, 1726; buried at Margam Church, 25th July, 1729. There can be little doubt but that this lady was named after the Queen of Charles I., whom her father remembered as visiting Barton Court in his boyhood.

DAVID EDMONDS, Esq., of Old Park, in the parish of Margam, Glamorgan. Mentioned in the will of his niece, Mrs. ~Hesther Reade, of Margam, dated 7th March, 1726. The marriage between Mr. Edmonds and Henrietta Maria Reade must have been brought about through Lady Millington, nee Russell, the sister of Thomas Reade's uncle, Sir William Russell. Martha, daughter of Sir Francis Millington, married Sir Thomas, first Lord Mansel, of Margam ; and Anne, daughter of Sir William Russell, married Sir Thomas Millington, Lady Mansel's brother.

Lady Millington had no children, and took a warm interest in her mother's family. She befriended Edward Reade, of Ipsden, when he was in difficulty with his creditors.

David Edmonds was buried at Margam, 5th June, 1748.

(8) FRANCES, baptized 19th March, 1666, at Appleford, Berks; buried there 16th March, 1667.

(9) SUSANNA, baptized 4th August, 1668, at Appleford; buried there 24th February, 1669.

(ro) SUSANNA, baptized 22nd February, 1670, at Appleford. Died at Appleford 25th August, 1691, in the 2 rst year of her age; buried the following day in Long Wittenham Church. She is supposed to have married without the sanction of her parents.

THOMAS MARCH, of London; a captain in the Merchant Service, and husband of Susanna Reade. * * * * * * * *

* Hesther was the youuger daughter of Edward; and as regards the prefix ".Mrs.," it was common in the Iaot and previou~ centuries to grant spinsters of a certain age brevet rank, Thus we find Mary Reade, of Brocket Hall, described as Mistress she being unmarried, Hesther Reade died 5th February, 1728-9, and was buried at Margam. A RECORD Oft THE REDES. 47

CORNEWALL READE, the fourth son of Thomas Reade, by Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornewa\l, Baron of Burford, was baptized 6th Januuy, 1632-3 at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop; died s.p., and was buried I rth July, 1642, at St. Helen's, Abingdon.

GEOFFREY READE, the fifth son, was baptized 20th April, 1634, at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop. Mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, 28th June, 1650; supposed to have died s. p.

ANNE, eldest daughter of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton Court, and of Appleford, in the parish of Sutton Courtney, Berks, and of Ipsden, Oxon, married her cousin, Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, Salop, and had a sister and a brother who married respectively a brother and a sister of her husband. She was baptized at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop, 7th February, 1629-30, and was buried at Burford, "in woollen,'' 15th March, 1691. Will dated 10th June, 1689; proved at Hereford, 4th April, 1692, by Thomas Inwood. In it she is described as "of Ten bury, Worcester, widow," and desires to be buried by her late husband in Burford Church. Mentions Thomas Cornewall, of Burford, and his wife; daughter Mary Cornewall ; daughter Elizabeth Inwood; son-in-law Thomas Inwood (executor); his daughter Roseanna Inwood. She had issue two sons and two daughters. Ber elder son, Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, married Catherine, daughter of William Read, Esq., a gentleman of London, but so far as is known not of the same blood as the Reades of Barton Court.

MAJOR THOMAS CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford, Salop (so described in the Burford Parish Registers), eldest son and heir of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Knt., Baron of Burford, by Elizabeth, his wife, sister of Thomas Reade, Esq., the father of Major Thomas Cornewall's wife, Anne Reade, who was consequently his first cousin. Major Thomas Cornewall also had a brother and a sister, viz., John Cornewall and Mary Cornewall, who married into the Reade family, for they wedded respectively his wife's sister and brother, viz., Mary Reade and Sir Compton Reade, Bart. Major Thomas Cornewall lived at Stapleton Castle until its demolition in the Civil War. Be married his cousin Anne, daughter of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton Court, and of Appleford, in the parish of Sutton Courtney, Berks, and of Ipsden, Oxon, and was buried at Burford, 22nd July, 1686, leaving issue. Will dated 10th July, 1686; proved at Hereford, 22nd February, following, by Anne his relict, the executrix named in the will. He bequeaths all the standards at Stapleton Castle, in the Park Hcuse, and in the house at Burford, to his son Thomas.

BEATRICE, the second daughter of Thomas Reade by Mary Cornewall, was baptized

20th February, 1630-1, at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop.,.Buried 18th March, 1647 1 at Dunstew. CATHERINE, the third daughter of Thomas Reade by Mary Cornewa11, was baptized 14th February, 1631-2, at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop; died 5th March, 1665; buried in Hereford Cathedral, M.I. On this monument, a brass, it is stated that she is the sister of Sir Compton Read.* Mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, 28th June, 1650, and then unmarried. *Spelt,without the final e. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

BRIDSTOCK HARFORD, Esq., of Hereford, barrister-at-law, and M.P. for the City of Hereford in 1660, son of Bridstock Harford, Esq., M.D. (by Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter of Richard Hereford, Esq., of Sufton Court, Hereford- see Hereford of Sufton Court, in Burke's Commoners, Vol. ii., p. 345), who was living in 1686, and was son of Henry Harford, Esq., of Boreham, in the parish of Warminster, Wilts (by Alice Bradstone, his second wife), who was buried at Warminster, 6th April, 1615, his will being dated 23rd February, 1614, and proved 10th November, 16r5.

Henry Harford, of Boreham, was the fifth son of John Harford, Esq., of Bosbury, Hereford (by Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir John Scrope, Knt., of Castlecombe, Wilts, twice High Sheriff of that county;, who was born in 1502, and died 30th August, 155q, aged 57, and was buried in the Chancel of Bosbury Church, where there are several ancient and handsome monuments of the family exhibiting their armorial bearings.

Bridstock Harford, Esq., first mentioned, was, with Henry Russell, Esq., godfather of Russell Read (son of Sir Charles and Catherine Read and grandson of Richard Read), who was baptized at St. Bride's, London, 6th March, 1664.

Bridstock Harford, Esq., M.P., died 20th April, 1683, having had by Catherine Reade, his first wife, a son,

BRIDST0CK HARFORD, Mayor of Hereford in 1697; d.s.p., 18th June, 1713. Arms of Harford.-Sable, two bends argent, on a canton the arms of Scrope, viz., azure, a bend or. Crest-Out of flames proper, a phcenix or, wings expanded azure, fire issuing from the mouth.

MARY, fourth daughter of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton Court and of Appleford in the parish of Sutton Courtney, Berks, and of I psden, Oxon, married her cousin, John Cornewall, Esq., of Rochford, Hereford, whose brother, Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, Salop, and sister, Mary Cornewall, married respectively her sister and brother, Anne Reade and Sir Compton Reade, Bart.

Mary (Reade) was baptized at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop, 1st July, 1635. She was a posthumous child, her father having died 14th December, 1634, and is mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, dated 28th June, 1650, from which it appears she was then unmarried. She left issue.

JOHN CORNEWALL, Esq., of Rochford, Hereford, third son of Sir Gilbert Cornewail, Knt., Baron of Burford, Salop (by Elizabeth, his wife, sister of Thomas Rrnde, Esq., who was John Cornewall's father-in-law), and brother of Major Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, and of Mary Cornewall, who married respectively Anne Reade and Sir Compton Reade, Bart., his wife's sister and brother.

John Cornewall married his cousin, Mary, daughter of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton Court, and of Appleford, in the parish of Sutton Courtney, Berks, and of Ipsden, Oxon, and was buried at Burford, 6th August, 1685, leaving issue. He is described as "of Rochford '' in the burial entry.

Admon. granted by C.P.C. to Edmund Cornewall, his brother (erroneously mentioned as Edward); Elizabeth Rogers alias Cornewall, Anne Cornewall, and Martha Cornewall the lawful children of deceased, having been duly cited 31st December, 168-. ' A RECORD OF THE .REDES. 49

The subjoined table gives the Cornewall-Reade intermarriages. SIR THOMAS CORNEWALL, Baron of BurfordTANNE, dau. of Sir Gilbert Lyttleton,

. G I f I . Str ILBERT CoRNEWALL,TELIZABETH, dau. o MARY CORNEWALL-THOMAS, heir of Baron of Burford. Sir Thos. Reade Sir Thos. Reade by Mary, dau. of by Mary, dau. of 1-----~-,~----~,Sir John Brocket. Sir John Brocket. Major TROMAs=ANNE, JOHN CoRNEWALL-MARY, MARY=Sir COMPTON, CoRNEWALL, dau. of of Rochford. dau. of CoRNEWALL, sonofThos. Baron of Burford. Thomas Thomas Reade by Reade Reade Mary Corne- by Mary by Mary wall. Cornewall. Cornewall. r I I Sir COMPTON READE=MARY, dau. of Sir ANNE READE=Major THOMAS MARY=JOHN CORNE- Gilbert Cornewall CORNEWALL, READE. WALL of Roch­ by Elizabeth, dau. Baron of Bur­ ford, son of Sir ofSirThos. Reade. ford, son of Gilbert Corne­ Sir Gilbert wall by Eliza­ Cornewall by beth, dau. of Elizabeth,dau, Sir Thos,Reade. of Sir Thos. Reade, CHAPTER V.

THE SHIPTON LINE.

SIR COMPTON READE =p MARY, dau. of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, Baron of Burford (1626-79). I (1627-1703). I I I THOMAS Sir EDwARD,,ELIZABETH, ANNE=C. VERMUYDEN MARY ELIZABETH=Sir FAIRMEDOW (r653-73). 2n::I Bart. Id. of F. Harby (1652- (1626, living in (1656-63). (1657-88). PENYSTON s.p. (1659-9r). (1661-1730). 81). s.p. 1681). s.p. s.p. (died 1705). I I I Sir WINW0OD, 3rd Bart. Sir THOMAs,4th Bart.1 JANE M.,dau. of EDWARD Gen. GEORGE=JANE, dau. of (1683-92) (1684-1752). I Sir R. Dutton (1686). (1687-1756). Charles Nowes s.p. ,~ (died 1721). s.p. (died 1744) Sir JOHN, 5th Bart.THARRIOT, dau. of W. Barker (1721-73). . (1727--18rr). I I I Sir JOHN, 6th Bart. --JANE, dau. of THOMAS=pCATHERINE, dau. of MARY=Sir ELIJAH lMPEY (1762--89). Sir C. Hoskyns ( 1762-1 Sir J. Hill (died (living, and (1756-1847). 1837). 1830). mar. in 1794). I I I I JOHN EDMUNDIMARIA LOUISA, SUSAN=Capt. CHAMBER­ EMILY HARRIET (died 1870). dau. of George LAYNE IRVINE. JANE, LUCY, Compton Reade (vide infra) (died 1886). AGNES CORNELIE=ARNOLD HIGHTON, (b. 1858). I I I Sir JOHN CHAND0S,,LOUISA, dau. of GEORGE COMPTON,MARIA JANE, dau. of JULIA 7th Bart. I Hon, D. Murray (1788-1866). I Sir H. Hoskyns (1790-1837). (1785-1868). (died 1821). i(died 1837), s.p. I GE0RGETJANEANNE, JOHN=pL.WALTON. MARlA=JOHN I (1812-63). dau. of STANHOPE I LOUISA, E. READE ~,----~-,J.Norton. (died 1883) (vide supra). Sir CHANDOS=MARIA LoursA=Rev. s. M. S. H., 8th Bart. E. E., J.E. WADE. (1851-90). dau. of s.p. R. T. Griffith. . I 1. Sir GEORGE CoMPTON, -MELISSA, dau, of Isaac Ray. Other 1ssue. 9th Bart. 1 GEORGE, heir apparent. I I I I I COMPTON JOHN CHAN DOS LOUISA JANE EMILY CLARA LoursA=Hon. ]OHN TALBOT RICE. (1814-51). (1816-18). (1817-37). (1819-97). (1821-53). s.p. s.p. s.p. s.p. s.p. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

THE SHIPTON LINE.

F the children of Sir Compton Reade by Mary, .daughter of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, O Baron of Burford, THOMAS, the eldest, was born on Tuesday, 13th December, 1653, about two o'clock in the morning. Baptized 20th of the same month, being Tuesday, at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop (described in the register as "son and heir apparent"); matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 30th March, 1675, aged 21; died unmarried 1675, vit. patr. SIR EDWARD READE, 2nd Bart., of Barton Court, Berks, and of Shipton-under­ Wychwood, Oxon.* Born about two o'clock in the morning, 30th June, 1659 ; baptized 6th July following at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop; matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 27th February, 1673-4, aged 14; High Sheriff of Oxon, 1685; died 4th September, 1691, buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, aged 32 years and 2 months, M.I. Executor to the will of his father 9th September, 1679. He married, ELIZABETH, daughter of Francis Harby, Esq., of Adstone (Adston), Northampton. She married, secondly, Henry Farmer (by whom she had a daughter, Mary, born 1702 ; died 14th February, 1719, aged 17, and was buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, M.I.), and died 13th September, 1730, aged 69 years; buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, M.I. Will dated 15th July, 1729 (in which she describes herself "Dame Elizabeth Read alias Farmore, of Shipton, Oxon "). Proved 22nd September, 1731, in C.P.C.-(240 Isham). She desires to be buried in Shipton Church. Mentions her brother Harby, his wife, their son and two daughters, her cousin Anne Reade, and her daughter (name not given). By Sir Edward Reade she had four sons, Sir Winwood, 3rd Bart. ; Sir Thomas, 4th Bart.; Edward; and General George Reade, of whom presently. Administered to the effects of her son, Sir Winwood Reade, 4th July, 1699 .

.ARMS OF FARMER.-.Arg. a fess sa., between three lions heads erased gu. Crest.-Oub of a ducal coronet or a cock's head gu., crested and wattled gold, :Motto.-Hora e sempre,

ARMS OF HARBY.-Gules, a fess dancettee ermine between ten billets argent, four in chief and six in base. Crest.-A demi eagle erased or, with wings expanded sable bezantee (Metcalfe's Visitation, of Northamptonshire, 1564 and 1618 -9, p. 25). There is a woodcut of these arms in Vol. XV, of the publications of the H:,.rleian Society ( The Viaitation of London, 1633-5, p, 346). ANNE, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, eldest daughter of Sir Compton Reade. Born 14th June, 1652, being a Monday. Baptized 22nd same month, being Tuesday, at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop. Adman. 7th October, 1681, to her husband, Cornelius Vermuyden in C.P.C., s.p.

CORNELIUS VERMUYDEN of , Cornwall, eldest son and heir of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Knt. Administered to his wife's effects, 7th October, 1681. He is, in all probability, identical with the Cornelius Vermuyden, mentioned in Vol. XVII. of the publications of the Harleian Society (The Visitation of London, 1633-5), *In the Chancel of the Holy Trinity, Danford, is a bell 33 inches in diameter with the inscription:­ " Sir Edward .Reade, Barrow Knight, 1680." A RECORD OF THE REDES. p. 310, as being about seven years of age in 1633, and the son of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Knt., of Hatfield, York, and of London (by Katherine, his wife, daughter of Allsaints Lapps, of London), who was living in 1633, and was the son of Giles Vermuyden, of "Seint Martin's Dike in Zeland" (by Sarah, his wife, daughter of Cornelius Warkendeke, of St. Martin's Dike). The Vermuydens took a prominent part in the Civil War on the side of the Parliament.

ARMS OF VERMUYDEN (granted in 1629 to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Knt., of Hatfield, York, and of London, by Sir John Borough, Knt., Norroy King of Arms).--Azure, a pile between three estoiles, or; quartering, Vert, a ram salient argent, armed or. Crest.-A demi ram salient argent, armed and hoofed or. (See a woodcut of these arms in the above-mentioned Vi3itation of London. These arms are also given m College of Arms MS., Miscellaneous Grants, IV. p. 17b.). MARY, second daughter of Sir Compton Reade. Baptized 16th July, 1656, at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop. Buried 2nd May, 1663, s.p. ELIZABETH, the youngest of Sir Compton Reade's daughters. Baptized uth October, 1657, at St. Mary's Church, Burford, Salop. Admon. 25th May, 1688, to her husband, Sir Fairmedow Penyston, Bart.

Sm FAIRMEDOW PENYSTON, or Peneystone, 4th Bart., of Cornwell, Oxon, second son of Sir Thomas Peneystone, 2nd Bart., of Cornwell (by Elizabeth, his wife, only daughter and heiress of Sir Cornelius Fairmedow, Knt., of London), who was the elder son of Sir Thomas Penestone, Bart., who, succeeding to the inheritance of his mother (Mary, daughter and co-heir of John Somer, Esq., of Newland, Kent), became seated at Leigh, in Sussex; and having received the honour of knighthood, was created a Baronet 25th November, 1612. Sir Thomas Penestone, 1st Bart., married thrice :-rstly, Anne, fourth daughter of Sir William Stonhouse; 2ndly, Martha, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Temple, Bart., of Stowe; and 3rdly, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Watson, of Halstead, in Kent, and widow of Sir William Pope; and had surviving issue only by his third wife. He was descended from Sir Thomas de Penyston, Knt., of Truro, Cornwall, living in the time of the Conqueror. Sir Fairmedow Penyston married twice, 1stly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Compton Reade, Bart., of Shipton Court; and 2ndly, Mary, daughter of . Powney, Esq., of Old Windsor, Berks, and widow of Sir William Paul, Knt., of Braywick, in the same county. He administered to the effects of his first ~ife, 25th May, 1688, and dying s.p. 24th December, 1705, the baronetcy became extinct.

ARMS OF PENYST0N, Peneystone, Pennystone, Pennistone, Peniston, or Penniston.-Argent, three Cornish choughs, sable, membered and beaked gules. Crest.-A griffin sable, membered and beaked or. Motto. - Virtus invicta viget. These arms were allowed in 1564, by Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, to Thomas Peniston, Lord of Hawruge, Bucks, son and heir of Anthony Peniston, Lord of Hawruge, son and heir of Thomas Peniston, son and heir of Sir Thomas Peniston, son and heir of Sir Richard Peniston, etc. (the pedigree being fully set forth up to the time of the Conquest, in College of Arms MSS., Miscellaneous Grants, I. 62b. ; and II. 177, 178), with seventeen quarterings, viz., "Fawconbridge, Harpden, Hosterley, Beauchamp, Urssois, Mowbray, Chesham, Brusse, Heries, Hames, Wilcotts, Arderburgh, Purcell, Shershall, Pratell, Mareshall, and Gowsell," and the crests of" Harpden, Breusse, Shershall, Beauchamp, Urssois, and Mareshall." The arms of Peniston were again allowed to Thomas Peniston, Lord of Hawruge, Bncks, son and heir of Anthony Peniston, of the same place, by Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, in 1573, with the three following crests, viz., 1-On a ducal crown or, an eagle displayed argent; 2-A griffin sable, membered and beaked or; 3-An hera.ldic tiger passant or. In Vol. V. of the publications of the Harleian Society (The Viaitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1674 and 1634), p. 153, the arms of Peniston 11,re given with 24 quarterings.

SIR THO:.\IAS READE, BART., 11.P.

(From the original portrait by Sir , in the possession of the late Sir John Chandos Reade, Bart.) A RECORD OF THE REDES. 53

Authorities.-Burke's Extinct Baronetcies. College of Arms MSS., MiscellaneouB Grants I., 62b.; and II., 177, 178. A pedigree of Peniston, of Cornwell, was compiled by Sir T. Phillipps, Bart. The author was the guest for some days in Auguet, 1858, of Miss Frances Penystone at Cornwell Park, and had the opportunity of investigating her unique collection of illuminated pedigrees. There was also at Cornwell the portrait of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Compton Reade, and wife of Sir Fairmedow Penystone. Sm WINWOOD READE, third Baronet, so named after Mrs. Winwood, of Ditton Park, his grandsire's munificent aunt, was born at Shipton Court in 1683, and died there 30th June, 1692, having survived his father rather over nine months. The published pedigrees ignore his succession to the baronetcy and his existence. His mother administered to his effects seven years after his decease. He was buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood, and the name Winwood, except as regards the daughter of Mary Reade, of Ipsden, wife of General Mackintosh, of Borlum, does not recur in the family annals until 1839 when it was bestowed on an eldest son who attained some distinction as an author and traveller, dying in the prime of life. Sm THOMAS READE, fourth Baronet, succeeded his elder brother in the title and estates. He was born in 1684, and on 29th October, 1719, married at Sherborne Church, , Jane Mary, the younger of the co-heiresses of Sir Ralph Dutton, M.l'. for Gloucestershire ; the elder co-heiress, Anne, having married James Naper, Esq., of Loughcrew, Meath, a cousin, the Sherborne mansion and estates passed to her son, who assumed the name of Dutton, and was father of the first Lord Sherborne.

ARMS OF DuTTON.-Quarterly arg. and gu., in the second and third quarters a freb or. Crest,-Out of a ducal coronet or. A plume of five ostrich feathers gu., ag, or, vert and tenne. Lady Reade died on 28th June, 1721, in gi\'ing birth to her only child, the fifth Baronet, and by her particular request was buried at Sherborne. Her husband who had unusual opportunities for contracting a second and advantageous marriage, treasured her memory so dearly as to have remained a widower for 3 r years. He was a keen politician, and a courtier, who rendered himself acceptable to two sovereigns in succession, having been Gt!ntle­ man of the Privy Chamber to George 1st and Clerk of the Household to George 2nd. He unsuccessfully contested the County of Oxon in 1 7 I 4 against Sir George Jenkinson. Above 2600 voters polled-a large number at that period-and it was said that Sir Thomas lost the election owing to a small-pox scare which deterred outlying voters from coming to Oxford, the only polling place for the shire. (See Davenport's Oxfordshire, where the name is misspelt.) He had previously, i.e. in 17 13, sat for Cricklade, and was returned for that borough again in 1715, 1722, 1727, 1734, and 1741. (See Lists of Members oj Parliament, pp. 34, 45, 57, 68, 80, 93). In 1741-2, according to the Gentleman's Magazine, there was a double return, the candidates being, Sir Thomas Reade, Wellbore Ellis, and Thomas Gore, who withdrew. His interest at Cricklade must have been strong, for at his second election he headed the poll, defeating the Hon. M. D. Moreton. The borough returned two members and he again headed the poll in 1735, but in 1722 was second to Mr. Gore, and in 1728 to Mr. Tilson (Cobbett's Parl£amentary History.) As regards politics both Sir Thomas Reade, and his younger brother George, of whom anon, gave a consistent support to Walpole, in whose administration Winnington, who had married Love, daughter of Sir James Reade, of Brocket Hall, held various offices, including Paymaster of the Forces. Sir Thomas was actually in the Royal Household when the Jacobite General Mackintosh, who had married his cousin, Mary Reade, of Ipsden, was brought up from Preston in irons and lodged in Newgate. The family alike at Brocket and Shipton had turned Whig. We find his name in the majority for repealing the Triennial Act, and making Parliaments Septennial, 24th April, 1716 ; and against the reJJeal of the Septennial Act, 54 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

13th March, 1734. With his brother in 1729 he voted for the grant of £u5,ooo and making good the arrears of the Civil List, and also in 1733 they supported Walpole's excise scheme. In short he went into the lobby with Ministers; except in 1719, when his name is con­ spicuously absent in the division list on the motion for strengthening the Protestant interest, Sir Thomas Reade was elected Governor of Christ's Hospital, 1724, Abingdon, and Master thereof in 1727-30-41. He presented to the Vicarage of Beedon in 1728 and 1743. His duties at Court and in Parliament necessitatin,, a prolonged residence in London he gave up Shipton Court to the use of his younger brother, who in return superintended the education of his son and heir, bequeathing him his estates. Possibly owing to his defeat by Sir George Jenkinson, Sir Thomas took little interest in his county. He did not serve as Sheriff, and resided mostly in Golden Square. He died 25th September, 1752, and was buried at Shipton-under-Wychwood. The following is an abstract of his Will :-Sir Thomas Reade, of Shipton-under­ Wychwood, Oxon, Baronet. Will dated 21st September, 1748, Codicil 6th September, T 750, proved 3rd November, 1752, by his son Sir John Reade, Bart. To my brother George Reade, Esq., and Thomas Fettiplace, of Swinbrook, Oxon, Esq., all my hundreds, manors, farms, lands, and tenements in Trust for the purposes of my Will and for my only son John Reade, Esq., and his heirs, remainder in default to my said brother George Reade, Esq. Farms, &c., at Beedon and Stanmere, Berks. To my sister-in-law Mrs. Jemima Dutton, £4000 and my house and buildings in Golden Square, Middlesex, and at her death the said house, &c., to go to my brother Geor~e Reade. Residue to my son John Reade, Exor. Witnesses : Ph. Parsons, J. Delaune, E. Stone. (Signed), T. Reade. Codicil ( r 7 50 ). To my said Sister Mrs. Jemima Dutton the further sum of £ 200, and furniture in my house in Gol_den Square. (Signed), T. Reade. Witnesses: John Chase, Humphrey Wheelwright. EDWARD, the third son of Sir Edward Reade, Bart., was born in 1686 at Shipton Court and died in infancy. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GEORGE READE, the youngest brother of Sir Thomas, was born in 1687, and entered the Army. In Cobbett's Parliamentary History under date 20th March, 172½, we find him described as Colonel of a Regiment of Foot, and Brigadier­ General of His Majesty's forces. He had been gazetted General at the early age of 32- why does not appear. Lord Wolseley informs me that he has not come across his name as performing distinguished service, and the inference seems to be that he owed his promotion either to his elder brother's influence at Court, or to the Walpoles. He was elected M.P. for -possibly owing to the interest of his relatives, the Russells of Strensham­ in 1722 and again in 1727, his colleague being , with whom he had several disputes-albeit they voted on the same side. In the election of 1734 he lost his seat to Mr. Tracey. He married Jane, daughter of Charles Nowes, barrister, of Wood Ditton in , who died in 1744, and was buried at Shipton. He survived her and his brother, dying 28th March, 17 56, and was also buried at Shipton. As has been stated, he resided at Shipton Court, and represented his brother in the County. We find his name included in a meeting held r 5th November, 17 53, at Oxford, to support the candidature of Lord Parker and Sir Edward Turner, together with that of his nephew Sir John and his cousin John Reade, of Ipsden, the Duke of Marlborough presiding.

*This and the following abstracts are from the oolleotion of family wills made by the late General Meredith Read. A RECORD OF THE RE.DES. 55

SIR JOHN READE, fifth Baronet, was born in Golden Square, 2rst June, r721. An only child, spoilt by aunt, uncle, and father, he became very early in life a man upon town. He had had children by at least one mistress prior to his marriage in 1759 with Harriot, daughter and heiress of William Barker, Esq., of Sonning. By her he had no issue until three years after their marriage, when she was delivered of twins. This circumstance, his wife's eccentricity, and his own notorious irregularities, combined to give origin to a tale which found credence among the lower orders of West Oxon, that his children were supposititious; in effect that his wife unable to bear the reproach of barrenness had foisted, with her husband's assent, the children of a woman named \lason on Shipton Court and the family.* The terms of Sir John Reade's will imparted a certain colouring to this gossip; but it seems antecedently improbable that he would have lent himself to a fraud on the Reades of Ipsden-his heirs in default of issue-with whom he lived on terms of cordial amity.t By Harriot Barker Sir John Reade had twins, viz., Sir John, 6th Bart., and Thomas; with one daughter, tMary, who married Sir Elijah Impey, the Indian Judge whose name figures in the famous Warren Hastings' trial. He died 9th November, 1773, at his mansion in Golden Square, and was buried at Shipton. The following is an abstract of the Will of Sir John Reade, son of Sir Thomas Reade, Bart., of Shipton :- Sir John Rea:de, of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, Baronet. Will dated 6th January, 1773, Codicil uth March, 1773, proved 25th November, r773, by his relict Dame Harriot"Reade and William Dutton, Esq., power being reserved to William Stephens. My capital, messuage, or mansion house wherein I now dwell, and all other my lands) tenements, etc., in Shipton-under-Wychwood to rny wife Dame Harriot Reade for her life and if she remains a widow, she to keep the same in good order, and after her death, or marriage, I give the same to rny eldest son John Reade and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, remainder in default to my youngest son Thomas Reade, remainder to my right heirs. My dwelling house in Golden Square, parish of St. Ann, Soho, Westminster, to my wife for life, with remainder to my sons John and Thomas as above. The use of all my plate, household goods, furniture, pictures in my said dwe'.ling houses to my wife for life. All my manors, lands, etc., in the county of Oxford, not before devised, to my said son John Reade and the heirs of his body, as also my manors and lands in co. Bucks, remainder in default to my son Thomas and his heirs, remainder to my right heirs. All my manors and lands in co. Huntington to my said son Thomas Reade and the heirs of his body, remainder in default to rny son John, remainder to my right heirs. To rny housekeeper Mrs. Mary Mason an annuity of £50 for life, and to dwell in my mansion house at Shipton as long as she lives and at her death I desire she may be buried in the parish Church of Shipton-under-Wychwood. All my manors, advowsons, lands, etc., in co. Berks .(other than those comprised in my marriage settlement) to my son John Reade and the heirs male of his body (Thomas Rawlinson, of Chadlington, co. Oxon, Esq., and Charles Fettiplace, of

*The circumstance of the twins having being born in London, and Mrs. Mason being a Londoner gave weight to this legend. tHis friendliness is evident both from letters in the Ipsden Muniment Chest, by his legacy to Thomas Reade, and by his having presented the Rev. John Reade to the benefice of Little Rollright. In his letters he styles Thomas "Tomy." +Extract from Maria Josepha Holroyd's correspondence:- " Could you have breathed freely in the atmosphere of Sir Elijah Impey? He has hired Bewick Park and means to live there summer and autumn. I hear there is a large family of young Imp-s." 1794. "Laqt week we paid our first visit to the Impeys. If I could forget Nun~omar I should have liked Sir Elijah very ~ell, as a good sort of old man. Lady I. has the 'beaux restes' of a very fine woman. They have several children, but I only saw one pretty, fair girl, and a Captain West, who is one of the family," (1794). . A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Brize Norton, co. Oxon, Esq., being my trustees to preserve the contingent remainder), remainder in default to my youngest son Thomas Reade and his heirs. My wife to have an annuity of £200 out of the said lands in co. Berks. My sons are under age. By my marriage settlement, lands and tenements in Sunning, co. Berks (now in the tenure of Mrs. Olivia Barker, mother of my said wife) I give to my wife for ever, if my sons both die under age, as also some shares in the New River Company. I also give my wife £500, al1 her jewels, etc., and carriages, horses, etc. To my dau. Mrs. Mary Impey £500. To my cousin Thomas Reade, of Ipsden, co. Oxon, .£200. To William Dutton, of Gerrard Street, St. Ann's, Soho, Esq., and William Stephens, of Kencott, co. Oxon, gent., two of my Exors., £200 each. To John Rogers, of Fenchurch Street, London, gent., now a clerk in the , £ 100. To Benjamin Ibbott, of Dartmouth Street, Westminster, Esq., j, 200. To Jane Reade, spinster, a minor, now an apprentice to Mrs. Mason, a milliner or haber­ dasher in [blank] Court, near Newgate Street, £500, and to John Reade, also a minor, now or late of the Panther man of war on the Newfoundland station, £500. To Edmund Byron, of Nassau Street, St. Ann Soho, Esq., £200, and to John Ready, of Cirencester, gent., £100. Poor of Shipton-under-Wychwood, £30. Bequests to servants. To my son Thomas Reade, £10,000 at the age of 2 1. Residue to my wife and the aforesaid William Dutton and William Stephens in trust for my son John Reade, they to be Exors and guardians of my children. My neighbour ffairmeadow Peniston, of Cornwell, co. Oxon, Esq., overseer. (Signed), John Reade. Wit.: Noah Thomas, Wm. Bacot, . Codicil, uth March, 1773. I revoke the bequest of .£10,000 to my son Thomas Reade, he now to have only .£7000, and the remainder to go to my residue. The abovesaid minors Jane Reade and John Reade* are the natural children of Jane Day, spinster. (Signed), John Reade. Wit.: John Baker, W. Townsend, John Hogarth. [The original is a very long will with much legal verbiage and repetition concerning the preservation of contingent remainders. All the information is embodied in the above abstract.] HARRIOT, the eccentric wife of Sir John Reade, was personally known to the late John Reade, of Ipsden, who died in 1849. A legend relates how when he was a child she took him on her knee, kissed him, and whispered in his ear that she had done him a very great wrong. Had the lady been thus penitent she would have mentioned him in her will. As it was his name does not appear even in one of the numerous codicils. Her original will was dated 1804, the 9th codicil 18n. She died 23rd December, 18n, and was buried at Shipton, having in many respects merited the sobriquet " Mother Shipton " by which she was generally known both in London and in Oxon. By her decease the family of Barker of Sonning became extinct.

SrR JOHN READE, 6th Baronet, whatever may have been his paternity or maternity, adorned the position he held. He was born in Golden Square, 8th March, 1762, baptized 7th April, at St. George's, Hanover Square ; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in I 780 as Gentleman Commoner, graduating M.A., 2nd July, 1783. His mother having the use of Shipton Court for her life, he purchased the mansion and estate of Oddington, Gloucester­ shire, of Loraine Smith, Esq., and to do so aliened to the Bowyers, the ancient Manor of Barton, including the ruins of Barton Court, the memorial of Sir Compton's gallantry in the Civil War. That was in 1787. He married at Marylebone Church, 13th January, 1784,

*This John Reade afterwards obtained a commission in the Army, rose to be Colonel, and married Penelope Harriet, daughter of Thomas Reade, of Stoke Ma.rmyon-vide next Chapter. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 57

Jane, daughter of Sir Chandos Hoskyns, 5th Baronet, of Harewood Park, Herefordshire. She was born in 17 56, and dying at Oddington in 1847, was buried at Shipton, having been a widow 58 years. She held the manor and advowson of Beedoo as her jointure-vide L_vsons. He died 18th November, 1789, and was buried at Shipton. The following is an abstract of the Will of Sir John Reade, Bart., son of Sir John Reade, Bart., of Shipton :- Sir John Reade, of Shipton-under-Wychwood, co. Oxon, and Oddington, co. Gloucester, Baronet. Will dated 6th January, 1789, proved 28th November, I789, by his relict Dame Jane Reade and the Rev. Thomas Leigh, clerk, power being reserved to the other Exor, Gregory, Lord Saye and Sele. My mansion house at Shipton and all my lands and tenements in Shtpton to the Right Hon. Gregory, Lord Saye and Sele, and the Rev. Thomas Leigh, of Addlestrop, co. Gloucester, clerk, in trust, to the use of my son John Chandos Reade and his heirs male, remainder in default to the use of such child as my wife Dame Jane Reade is now enceinte with, if a son. The said Lord Saye and Sele and the Rev. Thomas Leigh to be also trustees to preserve contingent remainders. My mansion house at Oddington with the lands and tenements, &c., in Oddington to my aforesaid trustees to the use of my said wife Dame Jane Reade for life, remainder to my son John Chandos Reade, remainder to the child my wife is now with. The remainder of the lease of my town house in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, to my wife for life, and after to my son John Chandos Reade. To my said wife all my household goods, furniture, china, books, pictures, at my houses m Oddington and Harley Street, with all carriages, horses, also my 29 shares in the Sun Fire Office, my meadows, etc., at Twyford, Berks. I also give her all her paraphernalia. To my wife and my aforesaid trustees all my freehold manors, lands, which I have a power of disposing, in trust, that in case I shall have one or more .children by my wife, my trustees may raise £10,000 for the benefit of such child or children. Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, of Harewood, co. Hereford, Bart., and Thomas Reade, of Bourton, co. Gloucester, Esq., trustees to preserve contingent remainders. After the death of my wife all the gold and silver plate at the mansions at Shipton, Oddington, and in London, to 'remain as heirlooms in the various mansions, and an inventory to be taken. To my wife, £300. To my brother Thomas Reade, Esq., £300. To Gregory, Lord Saye and Sele, and the Rev. Thomas Leigh, £200 each, they to be co-exors with my wife, and to be guardians to my child or children. To Thomas Barton, of Moreton in Marsh, co. Gloucester, gent., £ rno, he to be the receiver of the rents and profits of my estate. (Signed), John Reade. Wit. : . Robert Williams, , Samuel Williams. By Jane, daughter of Sir Chandos Hoskyns, Bart., Sir John Reade had issue two sons and three daughters. Of them prnsently,

THOMAS READE, twin brother of Sir John, 6th Bart., resided at Bourton-but whether Bourton-on-the-Water or Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, is not known. He was born 8th March, 1 762, and baptized 7th April, at St. George's, Hanover Square. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir John Hill, of Bath, who died 1830. He died 24th January, 1837. His will was dated 1835, and proved 21st February, 1837. By Catherine Hill he had a son, JOHN EDMUND, a protege of Walter Savage Landor, who enjoyed a certain reputation as a literary man, and wrote some clever verse, including especially an apostrophe to Marie Antoinette, but has been vilified in the Dictionary of National Biography. This gentleman married Maria Louisa, daughter of Captain George Compton Reade of the Grenadier Guards, who died 24th November, 1886, leaving one daughter-Agnes Cornelie, married 1st August, 1881, to Arnold Highton, Esq., who assumed 8 58 A RECORD OF THE REDES. the additional name of Reade. Mr. John Edmund Reade, who died 1870, had three sisters, viz., Susan, who married Captain C. Chamberlayne Irvine, R.N.; Emily Jane, and Harriet Lucy. Emily Jane is stated to have married W. Mathews, Esq. Reverting to the issue of Sir John Reade, 6th Bart., his successor was Sir John Chandos, of whom anon. The second son, GEORGE COMPTON, of Budleigh Salterton, was born 8th January, l 788, and entering the Grenadier Guards was present at Waterloo. He married, 1809, Maria Jane, daughter of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart., of Harewood Park, Herefordshire, who died in 1837, and dying 24th December, 1866, left issue three sons and three daughters. Of the former, George, born 1812, served as Lieut. in the Madras Infantry, and in 1851 married Jane Ann, daughter of J. Norton, Esq., by whom he had issue Sir Chandos Stanhope Hoskyns, 8th Bart.-vide infra-and Louisa Jane Elibank, who married 26th April, 1892, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Rev. Sedborough Mayne Wade, M.A. George Compton's second son, JOHN STANHOPE, married Lovica Walton, of Dexter, Michigan, U.S.A, and had issue with others Sir George Compton, 9th and prese!].t Bart. He died in 1883. A third son, CHAND0S, born 1817, died in September, 1833. Of the sisters, CATHERINE JULIA, born 1813, died April, 1834. MARIA LOUISA, married her cousin, John Edmund Reade (vide supra). CAROLINE JANE married-Scurr, Esq. Sir John Reade further left three daughters-Harriet and Louisa, twins, who died young s.p., and were buried at Shipton, and Julia Jane, a posthumous child, born 1790, died 9th April, 1837, also buried at Shipton.

Sm JOHN CHANDOS READE, 7th Baronet, was born 13th January, 1785, and baptized at Marylebone Church. He inherited his estates under the settlement of his grandfather, Sir Thomas, and his great-uncle, General George Reade. Educated at Harrow, and was Gentleman Commoner of Christ Church, Oxford. He married at St. James', Piccadilly, 6th January, 1814, Louisa, daughter of the Hon. David Murray, by Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London, 1767, and grand-daughter of the 3rd Earl of Oxford. Her father was brother of Alexander, 7th Lord Elibank. She died 6th February, 182 r, and was buried at Shipton, leaving issue: Compton, born I 7th October, 1814. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford. Died 31st July, 185r. John Chandos, born 1816, died 1818. Louisa Jane, born 1817, died 1837, s.p. Emily, born 30th April, 1819-her father's heir-at-law, as sole survivor-died November 23rd, 1897. Clara Louisa, born 25th January, 1821; married 13th October, 1846, the Hon. John Talbot Rice, brother of Francis William, 5th Lord Dynevor, and son of the Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Rice, Dean of Gloucester. She died in 1853, leaving the Manor of Oddington, her portion, to her husband. Sir John Chandos Reade served as High Sheriff for Oxon r 8 II. He died 14th January, r 868, and under the provision of his will was buried at Little Rollright, Oxon. The subjoined is extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice :- In Her Majesty's Court of Probate. This is the last Will and Testament of me Sir John Chan dos Reade, of Shipton Court, in the County of Oxford, Baronet. In the event of my dying in any other Parish than Shipton-under-Wychwood then I desire that my remains may be interred in the Parish in A RECORD OF THE REDES. 59 which I shall so die, but if I die at Shipton-under-Wychwood then I desire I may be buried in the churchyard of Little Rollright in the said comity, also that my funeral may be as plain as possible and that there be only a Headstone erected recording my name, age, and the date of my death. If in pursuance of this my Will I shall be buried in any other Parish than Little Rollright then I bequeath to the Officiating Minister of such Parish the sum of Ten Guineas, but if at Little Rollright then I give to the Officiating Minister of that Parish the sum of fifty pounds. I give a suit of mourning to all my servants in my service at my decease. I give and devise all the manors, messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate of every tenure of or to which I am or at my death shall be seized or entitled at law or in eqnity or of which I have or at my death shall have power to dispose by will (except what I otherwise dispose of by this my Will or any Codicil hereto) absolutely nnto and to the use of Joseph Wakefield now residing at Shipton Conrt aforesaid, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, according to the nature therecf respectively. I give and bequeath all the moneys, securities for money, family and other pictures, paintings, prints, books, linen, plate-glass, china, wearing apparel, carriages, horses, live and dead farming stock, the contents of the blue leather and other boxes, consisting of snuff boxes, watches, watch and other chains, seals, rings, pins, and in particular the watch that belonged to King William the Third, go0ds, chattels, credits and personal estate of or to which I am or at my death shall be possessed or entitled either at law or in equity or of which I have or at my death shall have power to dispose by will ( except chattels real included in the devise of real estate hereinbefore contained and except what else I otherwise dispose of by this my Will or any Codicil hereto) absolutely nnto the said Joseph Wakefield, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to and for his and their own exclusive use and benefit. I direct the said Joseph Wakefield to take npon himself and nse in all deeds and writings whereto or wherein he shall be a party and upon all other occasions the surname of Reade only and no other snrname and shall and do nse my arms or armorial bearings and· shall and do within the space of one year after my decease apply for and endeavour to obtain an Act of Parliament or proper License from the Crown or take such other means (if any) as may (be) requisite and proper to enable and authorize him to take, use and bear the surname and arms of Reade. I hereby authorize and empower the acting executors for the time being of this my Will to pay and satisfy any debts owing or claimed to be owing by or from me or my estate, and any liabilities to which I or my estate may be subject or may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think proper, and to accept any composition or any security real or personal for any debt or debts owing to me or my estate and to allow such time for the payment of any such debt or composition for a debt (whether with or without taking security for the same) as to my said executors or executor shall seem reasonable, and also to compromise and compound and submit to arbitration and settle all debts, accounts, transactions, matters and things which shall be owing or claimed to be owing from or to me or my estate or be depending or arise between me or my said executors or executor, and any other person or persons and generally to act in relation to the premises in such manner as they or he shall think expedient without being liable for any loss which may be occasioned thereby Provided always and I declare my Will to be that the acting executors thereof for the time being shall be respectively chargeable only for such monies as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their signing any receipt for the sake of conformity and shall be answerable and accountable only for their own acts, receipts, neglects and defaults respectively, and not one for the other of them nor for any Banker, Broker, or other person with whom any moneys or secnrities may be deposited nor for the in.sufficiency or deficiency of any stocks, fu_nds, or securities, nor for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own wilful default respectively, and also that it shall be lawful for the said executors for the time being to reimburse themselves and himself or pay and discharge out of any of my property all 60 A RECORD OF THE REDES. expenses incurred in and about the execution of the trusts and powers of this my Will. And lastly, I appoint James Wickens of No. 1, Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, Solicitor, James Scarlett Price of Burford, in the said county of Oxford, Solicitor, and the said Joseph Wakefield, the Executors of this my Will hereby revoking all former Wills and Codicils by me at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand this twentieth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. John Chandos Reade.* Signed by the above named. Sir John Chandos Reade the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses attesting the same, James S. Price, solr., Burford, Tho. Mann his Clerk. Proved at London, 24th June, 1868, by the oaths of James Scarlett Price and Joseph Wakefield, two of the Executors to whom Admon. was granted, James Wickens the other Executor having renounced the Probate and Execution of the said Will. The Right Honourable Sir James Plaisted Wilde, Knight, the Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate having on the 9th June, 1868, by his final Decree in a certain cause or suit then depending therein entitled Price and Wakefield against Reade, pronounced for the force and validity of the said Will. t

SIR CHANDOS ST AN HOPE HOSKYNS READE, 8th Baronet, son of George Reade, and great-nephew of Sir John Chandos Reade, was born at Madras, 5th September, 1851, and for a short time held an appointment under the Duke of Buckingham, Governor of Madras. He married 11th March, 1880, at St. George's, Hanover Square-the ceremony being performed by his cousin, the Rev. Canon Sir John Leigh Hoskyns, Bart., assisted by the Rev. Prebendary Hawkshaw-Maria Emma Elizabeth Conway, daughter and heiress of Richard Trygarn Griffith, Esq., of Carreglwyd, Anglesey-the representative of one of the most ancient families in North Wales. Sir Chandos, who was High Sheriff for Anglesey, but compelled to resign office owing to ill health, died 28th January, 1890, and leaving no issue, was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his first cousin, SIR GEORGE COMPTON READE, 9th Baronet, whose lady is Melissa, daughter of Isaac Ray, Esq., of Michigan, by whom he has, with other issue, GEORGE, heir apparent to the title. Lady Reade has placed a very beautiful monumental tablet to the memory of her husband in Shipton Church.

*In June, 1857, i.e. within a few months after his will was sigi::ied, Sir John Chandos Reade aliened the Manor of Beedoo to Lord Overstone. Io is now, jure uxoris, the property of Lord Wantage, V.C., together with the adjoining Manor of Stanmore, and the advowson of Beedon, acquired by Anne, nee Hoo, widow of Thomas Rede, of Barton Court, circa 1557. tOn the surface this remarkable document appears to exhibit the deliberate intention of the Testator to replace his family by a servant, and the terms of the will are designed to verify the affirmation that it was the Testator's will and deed. There were circumstances, however, which tended to impugn this view, apart from the question of the Testator's sanity; hence, after submitting to the legatee a proposition to buy him out and being refused, Sir Chandos Stanhope Hoskyns Reade, 8th Baronet, as heir-at-law of Miss Emily Reade the Testator's heir-at-law-a lady who, owing to ill health, had been certified incapable of managing he~ own affairs-proceeded in 187S to collect evidence which was duly submitted as affording ground for a fresh hearing. The Court agreed to hear him, but only on condition of his depositing a sufficiently large sum to cover the legatee's costs. This was prohibitive. The case was withdrawn, and the legatee havmg previously assumed the name of Reade, was left in undisturbed possession. On his decease in 189G, his son, educated at B.N.C., Oxford, sold the family portraits at Christie's, but courteously permitted General Meredith Read to purchase privately thos_e of Sir Compton and his wife nee Cornewall, and Sir Thomas, M.P. By Mrs. Meredith Read's kind permission they are here reproduced CHAPTER VI.

THE IPSDEN LINE.

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EDWARD READE, second son of Thomas Reade, of Barton Court, by Mary, daughter of Sir Gilbert Cornewall; Baron of Burford, Lord of the Manors of Ipsden, Oxon. Baptized 27th May, 1627, at St. Mary's, Burford, Salop. Married, first (1651), Jane, daughter of Thomas Acton, Esq., of Bockleton, Worcester; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of John Allen, Esy_., of Streatley, Berks, J.P., for that county (she was buried at Ipsden, 28th November, 1664, s.p.); thirdly, 1665, Ellen, relict of William Allen, Esq., of Goring, Oxon, and Much Hadham, Herts (she died 7th February, 1685, and was buried 11th February following, at Ipsden. Will dated 7th October, 1674. She was the ancestress of the present Ipsden family); and, fourthly, in 1697, Susanna, who was sole executrix of her husband's will dated 21st February, 1712, and had issue by him. 62 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Having been bequeathed the estate of lpsden under the will of his grandfather, Sir Thomas Reade, who died in 1650, he was granted possession by a writing enrolled in Chancery, and dated 19th April, 1651, he being then 24 years of age. This document is of prime interest. It bears the signatures of his uncle, Sir John Reade, 1st Bart., of Brocket Hall, and of his brother, ~Sir Compton Reade, 1st Bart., of Barton Court-commonly styled as of Shipton. The document-it being the period of the Commonwealth-is countersigned by Speaker Lenthall. The Ipsden Muniments contain many deeds and much correspondence connected with this gentleman, who appears to have lived within his income until the decease of his third wife. To escape the attention of creditors he made over his estate to his son, Philip Edward, and retired to his relatives the Cornewalls of Burford, Salop. A fourth marriage added to his difficulties, but in spite of them he lived to 12th January, I7 I 6, act 89. Among the Ipsden Muniments is a catalogue of his furnituret with a description of the mansion erected in 1550 by Thomas Reade for his daughter, Katherine, wife of Thomas Vachell; and he was most tenacious of his manorial rights, requiring his tenants to render homage, even when he was at the lowest pecuniary ebb. At sixty-eight he broke his leg and married his fourth wife at seventy years of age,

JANE, first wife of Edward Reade, of Ipsden, was sister of Nicholas Acton, Esq., of Bockleton, Worcester (who was born in 1620), and daughter of Thomas Acton, Esq., of Bockleton (by Anne, his wife, daughter of John Steele alias Walsgrove, of Hatton Park, Worcester), who was born in 1590, and was the son of Nicholas Acton, Esq., of Bockleton (by Dorothy, his first wife, daughter of Francis Walsh, Esq., of Shelsley, W orccster), who was living in 1634, and was the son of Thomas Acton, Esq., of Bockleton, grandson of Roger Acton, Esq., of Bockleton, and great-grandson of Edward Acton, Esq., of Bockleton, whose father, Sir Roger Acton, Knt., third son of Richard Acton, Esq., of Sutton, acquired the estate of Bockleton, by his marriage with Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Fawkes, of Hereford, son of John Fawkes, by Katharen, his wife, daughter and heiress of Philip Bockleton, of Bockleton, son of John Bockleton or Bokilton, who was living 7th Edward III. ( 1334). ARMS OF ACTON OF BOCKLETON : Quarterly : 1st and 4th Gules, a fess ermine within a bordure engrailed of the second for Acton; 2nd, Gnles, three pheons points upwards argent, for Bockleton; 3rd, Gules, a chevron engrailed ermine between three dolphins naiant embowed argent. Crest of Acton.-An arm in armour em bowed proper, garnished or, holding in the hand a sword argent, pomel and hilt or, thereon a boar's head couped sable, the neck distilling blood. Motto.-Vaillance avance l'homme. The above arms and crest of Acton "of right belonging to the anncient family of the Actons, of Acton Hall, in the County of Worcester" were confirmed in 1634, by John Borough, Garter Principal King of Arms, to John Acton, Esq., the King's Goldsmith in Cheapside, who was the heir male of the family of Acton of Acton Hall, "As appeareth by the hoke of visitation made anno 1634, fo. 456." AUTHORITIES.-·Vol. XV. of the publications of the Harleian Society (The Visitation of London, 1631-5), p. 4, where there is a woodcut of the arms of Acton. Vol. XXVII. of the publications of the Harleian Society (The Visitation of Worcestm·shire, 1569), p. 4. College of Arms MSS. marked Grts. I. 430; Misc. Grts, IV. 17 ; and Misc. Grts. V. 64.

*In the Ipsden Muniment Ch<:;st is a Release dated 1658 to Sir_Con:pton Reade by John and Mary Cornewall of £1000 bequeathed by Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., under his will dated 28th July, 1650, to his granddaughter, Mary, aforesaid. tPlot's Hist. of Oxfordshire, p. 173 of 1705 edition, Chap. VI., sec. 80: "At the worshipful Mr. Read's, of the parish of Ipsden, the Bruscum of an old ash is so wonderfully figured, that in a dining-table made of it (without the help of ) yon have exacLly represented the figure of the. fish we commonly call a Jack· though endeavouring to mend they have somewhat marred it by art: and in some other tablets the figures of a unicorn, and an old man from the navel upwards, but neither of these so plain as the former." The Bruscum he explains as a nodosity, to be found in ash and maple, which, when cut, shows a curled and winding grain. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Jane Acton's marriage settlement, dated December 18th, 1651, is preserved in the Ipsden Muniment Chest, the signatories being on behalf of the bride, Nicholas Acton ; on behalf of the bridegroom, his younger brother, Thomas Reade, of Appleford. The witnesses were Thomas Eaton, Richard Acton, Thomas Acton, jun., Thomas Acton, and James Newton. The following entry in the Diary of Anthony A'Wood, the Oxford Antiquary (1623 -1695), fixes the date of her death. "August 14th, 1657. Mrs. Reade, of Ipsden, departed this life, who three weeks before her death was taken with a fit of vomiting and vomited a live spider. Her name was Acton before she married."-From "Life and Tt'mes OJ Anthony A' Wood," edited by Rev. Andrew Clark, Oxon, 1891.

By Jane Acton, his first wife, Edward Reade had one child only, viz. :-

COMPTON READE, born 13th September, 1653; baptized at Bockleton, 29th September, 1653 ; educated at St. John's School, Reading, on Sir Thomas White's Foundation, from whence he passed as scholar to St. John's College, Oxford, on 1st July, 1672, having been elected 21st June, 1672, in the place of Mr. Page, deceased; he graduated B.A. in 1676, and rose to be a Resident Fellow. He spelled his name without the final e, and his name is thus entered in the Oxford University Matriculations Register. The entry is as follows: Coll. D. Joh. Bapt. 1672, Jul. 1. *Compton Read, an. 16, Edw. R., de Ipsden, Oxon, generosi filius. There is still in existence [ 1897] a silver tankard which Compton Read presented to St. John's College in 1677. It has engraved upon it the Family Arms, and the following inscription, wherein the name is also spelled without the final e: "Ex dono Comptoni Read, hujus Coll. Socii et filii natu maximi Edwardi Read Armigeri de Ipsden in Comitate Oxon, 1677." Died unmarried, and was buried at Ipsden, 12th November, 1690. Compton Read's signature minus the final e is recorded in a letter written by him in Latin, about 1675, to William Levinz, M.D., Vice-President of his college (Rawl. 11:fS.J. fol. I9), wherein he apologises in a serio-comic vein for such irregularities as absence from chapel and omitting to pernoctate within the college walls. t He promises, should he so offend again, to resign. It came to that, but he left his college without acerbity as is evidenced by his donation of a tankard. In 1676, t'.e. on his resignation of his fellowship, he joined his father in barring the entail of Ipsden. The trustees of this deed of settlement were Sir William Bromley, K. B., of Bagginton, Edward Reade's cousin, through the Cornewalls and Lyttletons ; Richard Winwood, of Ditton Park, his uncle; William Allen, of Goring and Much Hadham, whose widow became his third wife ; Alexander Reade, of Pomney, his great­ uncle Richard's eldest son, and William tHildesley, of Stoke Marmyon.

*He was probably entered as Read at St. John's by his schoolmaster, and adhered to that spelling until he left Oxford. In the Ipsden Muniments he signs his name Reade. tit is a coincidence that the present Reade~ of Ipsden are descended through the Warings from Serjeant Levinz, brother of this Dr. Levinz (vide Royal Descent from the Princes of \Vales through the Warings.) :):In the Ipsden Muniments is a license, dated 3rd March, 1662, from Archbishop Juxon to Frances Hildesley, of Stoke Marmyon, permitting him and his household to eat meat in Lent. It is in Latin, and was handed down from the Hildesleys to the Blackalls, and from them to the Reades. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

He shortly after quarrelled with his father and his third wife, and travelled abroad, returning to end his days at Mongewell, being cared for by Mrs. Saunders, sister of his father's second wife. In the Ipsden Muniment Chest is a letter deploring this estrange­ ment; a letter, as Mr. E. A. Reade aptly phrased it, addressed by an undutiful son to an unnatural father. His career resembled in many particulars that of another heir to Ipsden who did not live to inherit-the late W. Winwood Reade.

ELIZABETH, second wife of Edward Reade, of Ipsden, was daughter of John A.llen, Esq., of Streatley, Berks, by Anne, daughter of John White, Esq., and Elian or, his wife, daughter of Henry Clarke, Esq., of Goring, Oxon, who was one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that County, and 7 I years of age on the 14th March, 1 664, and was son of John Allen, Esq., of Streatley (by Anne, his wife, daughter of Ralph Whistler, Esq., of Fools' Court, or , near Blewbury, Berks), who died 1654, and was the son of Richard Allen, Esq., of Streatley (by Alice, his wife, daughter of Henry Clarke, Esq., of Goring, Oxon), and grandson of John Allen, Esq., of Streatley. The family of Allen is of antiquity in Berks. Aleins, and A\leyns, occur in the Inq. p. mortem from the date of Edw. III. John Allen was Lord of the Manor of Streatley in 1600. John Allen his grandson, had a brother, Thomas, who by Elizabeth, daughter of John Salmon, of Barton Stacey, Rants, had a son, William, of Goring, and Much Hadham, whose widow became the third wife of Edward Reade.

Mrs. Elizabeth Reade, d.s.p., and was buried at Ipsden, 28th November, 1664.

Her sister married Mr. Saunders, the squire of Mongewell, the lady who took an affectionate interest in Compton, the son of Edward Reade by Jane Acton, who died at Mongewell Park.

ARMS OJ! ALLEN.-Argent, two bars azure, over all an anchor in pale or. Crest.--A demi naked fem21,le holding in her right-hand 21, spear erect all ppr. Authorities.-Metcalfe's Visitation of Berkshire, 1664-6, p. 2. Burke's General Armory.

ELLEN, relict of William Allen, Esq., of Goring, Oxon, and Much Hadham, Herts (by whom she had a son William Allen, of Watling Street, London, aged ro years in 1665)." Married Edward Reade in 1665. Died 7th February, 1685, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, buried uth February following at Ipsden. Will dated 7th October, 1674, in which she assigns the chief place to William Allen, and desires to be buried in linen, it being the rule in those days, under the Act of Parliament of 1661 for the benefit of the wool trade, to bury corpses in woollen, or otherwise to pay a penalty of £5, part of which was to be given to the poor. Thus Pope-

" Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor N arcissa spoke). No. Let a charming chintz and Brussels lace "Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face ! " -Moral Essays. Ep. I. By Ellen Allen, Edward Reade had the following children :-Philip Edward, Thomas, Ellen, Mary.

*f\he married_her first husband in 1652. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

PHILIP EDWARD READE, of Ipsden. Born 9th May, 1671; baptized at Ipsden 22nd May. Died 12th August, and was buried at Ipsden, 15th August, 1705. In the chancel of Ipsden Church is his tombstone now covered by the Vicar's pew, with this inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Philip Edward Reade, Gent., who departed this life 12th August, 1705, in the 34th year of his age." Will dated 9th August, 1705; proved 13th February, 17 0 7-8, by· his brother, Thomas Reade, power being reserved to Ellen Blackall. This gentleman, like his brother Compton, possessed brains. An MS. Vol. of his poems, lyrics somewhat after the manner of Herrick, was in the Ipsden Muniment Chest, and was lent by the late Miss Ellinor Hastings Reade to one of her lady friends, who, offended at their erotic tone, destroyed them. A letter of a broad farcical character from his pen remains. He introduces Sir Ralph Rednose, Sir fferdinando ffieryface, Daniel Dry Brain, and Symon Suckpott, names suggestive of local celebrities of that date. Edward Reade, his father, in 1699 assigned him his entire estate with remainder to his brother, Thomas. In 1701 a marriage settlement was drawn in view of his approaching union with a Miss Turner, of St. Giles in the Fields, but the match was broken off. THOMAS READE, the second son of Edward Reade by Ellen Allen, was born 10th April, 1675, baptized 20th April, 1675, at Ipsden. Resided at Ipsden Basset, with his brother Philip Edward, and the initials of their names are marked on the building with the year 1695. Died 4th November, 1720, buried 6th November, 1720, at Ipsden. Admon. granted 22nd Novemger, 1720 to his relict Rebecca Reade (Oxford Archdeaconry and Consz'story) ; another grant (de bonz's non) 9th March, 1738, to his son, John Reade ( Oxford Admons.). To the memory of Thomas Reade there is a tablet in the chancel of Ipsden Church. He was one of the executors of the will of his brother, Philip Edward Reade, dated 9th August, 1705, at whose decease he succeeded to the Ipsden estate, burdened with the care of a father, his fourth wife (vz'de z'nfra), and her children. He married in 1703, Rebecca, daughter of William Blackall, Esq., of Braziers Park, and by her, who survived him, had a numerous family. Inasmuch as his father lived to 1716 he enjoyed his estate without encumbrance for less than five years.

REBECCA, daughter of William Blackall, Esq., of Braziers Park, in the parish of Checkendon, Oxon (kinsman of the race of that name at Haseley, Oxon), and sister of William Blackall, jun., who married her sister-in-law Ellen Reade. Born, 1676. Ad­ ministered to her husband's effects 22nd November, 1720. On her marriage she took up her abode at Ipsden Basset Manor, and changed its name to Dogmore End, an appellation which adhen,d to it until recently, when the true designation was reverted to. By Thomas Reade she had JOHN, of whom presently. THOMAS, born 25th October, 1706; baptized at Ipsden, 13th November, matriculated at Hart Hall, now Hertford College, Oxford, 17th July, 1725 (Foster's A!umnz' Oxon), acquired a habit of stammering, and did not graduate. Mentioned in the will of his brother John, dated 30th July, 1777. Resided continuously at Ipsden Basset Manor, where he died unmarried, and was buried at Ipsden, 25th January, 1782. COMPTON, baptized at Ipsden, 10th May, 1709, buried there 30th May in the same year. PHILIP EDWARD, baptized at I psden, 11th June, 17 II. Is described as a wine merchant of St. Gile,, Cripplegate in 17 42. Married Sarah Freshwater, 5th December, 17 41. JAMES, baptized at Ipsden, 1st March, 1714. Buried there 6th June, 1728. 9 66 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

ELIZABETH, born 16th December, 17or. Baptized at Ipsden, and was buried there 4th January, 1778. She married Anthony Carrington, Esq., of St. Botolphs in the Fields, who was buried at Ipsden, 21st September, 1737. MARY, born 27th February, 1703. Baptized at Ipsden same day. ELLEN, baptized at Ipsden, 3rd March, 1708.

REBECCA, baptized at Ipsden, 30th May, I7 10.

ANNE, baptized at Ipsden, I 9th June, I7 I 6. In a letter from Mr. Blandy, of Henley, to John Reade-undated, but probably 1745- Mr. William Toovey-presumably of Joyce Grove and ancestor of Admiral Hopkins-is mentioned as his, John Reade's, brother. Which sister he married has not been ascertained. It is noteworthy that while this William Toovey and John Reade were involved in such legal disputes as caused their estrangement, the grandson of either F(entleman, viz., Major Toovey, of Joyce Grove, and John, father of Charles Reade, were lifelong friends. Of these ten children, six have left no positive record. Their mother died of small­ pox cet 50, 2nd November, 1728, having administered the Ipsden estate for her eldest son during his minority, and with care and prudence. Buried at Ipsden, 4th November.

ELLEN, daughter of Edward Reade (by Mrs. Ellen Allen, his third wife), and wife of William Blackall, jun., was born 28th February, 1666, and baptized at Ipsden, 4th March; executrix to the will of her brother, Philip Edward Reade, dated 9th August, 1705. She married without her father's consent. Marriage license at the Vicar-General's Office, dated 12th September, 1689, at which date she was about 23 years old; licensed to marry "William Blackall, of Checkendon, co. Oxon, Gent., Baehr.," at Moncks Risborough, Bucks.* She had issue- r. WILLIAM, baptized at Ipsden, 29th March, 1692. I. ELLEN, baptized at Ipsden, 18th September, 1690. II. ELIZABETH, baptized at Ipsden, 5th September, 1693. III. MARY, born 25th August, 1695, baptized at Ipsden; died in infancy, IV. MARY, baptized at Ipsden, 30th January, 1698. V. ANNE, born 7th December, baptized at Ipsden, 15th December, 1700. WILLIAM BLACKALL, jun., Esq., of Ipsden, son of William Blackal), Esq., of Braziers Park, Checkendon, and brother of Rebecca, wife of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Ipsden. He was born about 1664, being about 25 years of age at the date of his marriage license, 12th September, 1689; married Ellen, daughter of Edward Reade, Esq., of Ipsden. William Blackall, junior, had obtained a beneficial lease of Ipsden farm-900 acres of rich land-as a set-off to his wife's dowry unpaid. During his father's lifetime they resided at Ipsden. He inherited Braziers Park in due course, and bequeathed the estate to his son, whose daughter and heiress Anne, on 1st December, 1774, married' Charles Burrell Massingberd, Esq., of Ormesby, Lincolnshire, High Sheriff for Oxon. Their daughter, Harriet Massingberd, co-heiress of the Barony of Scrape of Masham, married 1806, Charles Godfrey Mundy, of Burton Hall, Leicester. The estate of Braziers was aliened by the

*She had previously obtained a license to marry Lachlan Mackintosh, but the marriage was never solemnized. This was also at the Vicar-General's Office.-(Note by General Meredith Read, 1892.) A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Massingberds to Mr. Hervey, a brother-in-law of Beckford of Fonthill. His son, afterwards of Bradwell Grove, married Lady Arabella Primrose, daughter of the Earl of Rosebery, and was trustee of the marriage settlement of John Reade, of Ipsden, 1796.

MARY, youngest daughter of Edward Reade, of Ipsden, by Ellen, widow of William Allen, of Goring and Much Hadham, was born 2nd 1\Iay, 1668, and baptized at Ipsden. In the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Oxford, parish of St. Giles, is this entry: "William Mackintosh, of Bertum (sic) Scotland, to Mary Reade, of Ipsden, married 1688." In consequence of her father's embarassed circumstances his aunt Anne, wife of Richard Winwood, of Ditton Park, Colnbrook, offered to adopt her. That was in 1677. A bond exists in the Ipsden Muniment Chest whereby Edward Reade covenanted to give this daughter a dowry should she marry, the trustees being Francis Cornewall, of Burford, and Robert Conway, of Ditton Park. From Ditton Mary wrote, being still a girl, some charming letters, alluding especially to the " dear Princess," i.e. the Princess Anne, of whose household she became a member. These letters since 1882 have been missing. The late Rev. H. St. John Reade intended to have had facsimiles made of them; they were removed from the Muniment Chest and not restored. The verification therefore of Mary's relations with the Princess-afterwards Queen Anne-is lost. It was at Court probably that she met General Mackintosh, and the reason of their marriage taking place at Oxford may be assigned to her husband's frequent visits to Sir Robert Boyle there. They resided at Raitt's, a mansion on the Borlum estate, where Mackintosh planted an avenue, but as his father was still living, their resources must have been slender. In the Ipsden Muniment Chest is a letter from Borlum, dated 8th June, 1703, from Mary to Philip Edward. It commences with-

" DEAR BROTHER,-! pray God these may find you in good health, as I am (blessed be God) and my husband and children are at present. I long much to hear from you. Pray you be so kind as to keep a more frequent correspondence by letter, and to favour me with an account of your present circumstances, if you have injoyed as yett the embraces of a sweet Lady in marriage, and how it goes with our brother Thomas, sister, our father, and the rest of our relations there, which will be very refreshing to me who live at such a distance."

Tbis letter is marked No. 3, Nos. 1 and 2 having been the missing letters, written by Mary, then Mary Reade, from Ditton Park.

Owing to Edward Reade's difficulties the balance of her do\Yer was not paid until after her decease, and then by her brother Thomas to her husband. General Meredith Read gives the date of her death 171 2, and states that she was buried at Borlum.

She named her eldest daughter Winwood, after the kind great-aunt who had proved a second mother to her; and it is a coincidence that the descendant of that same Winwood, who married Mackenzie of Fairburn, should be the possessor of Fawley Court, one of the great mansions of the Chiltern county where she was born. That her lot was regarded with commiseration may be inferred from her marriage settlement having been endorsed in a contemporary hand " Poor Mary ! "*

*In 1863 an attempt was made by the late William Barrington Reade to obtain the corpus of a legacy of Aunt ,Winwood to Mary Mackintosh, which had got into Chancery. He was opposed by Sir John Chandos Reade, as one of the heirs general, and by members of the Mackintosh family, in whose favour it was awarded. 68 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, of Borlum, Inverness-shire, N.B., eldest son of Wm. Mackintosh, Esq., of Colney Street, Herts, and of Borlum, aforesaid, married Mary, daughter of Edward Reade, Esq., Lord of the Manors of Ipsden, Oxon, by Mrs. Ellen Allen, his third wife. Educated at Aberdeen, he served in the French army, but on the accession of Queen Anne joined Sir R. Boyle, his most intimate friend at Oxford. The part played by Mackintosh in the Rising of 17 15, as second in command to Mar and leader of the Highlanders who joined Mr. Forster and Lord Derwentwater, is historical.* In 1719 he made a second abortive attempt to raise the Clans, and being captured was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, where he died after 24 years of captivity. In 1715 he was a widower (vide The Celtic Mag., May and June, 1877, article on Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum, by A. Mackintosh Shaw.) Owing to the influence of his wife with Queen Anne he obtained more than one appointment. He was named in 1699 one of a Commission granted by the Privy Council against the Macdonalds of Keppoch, and in 1704 a Commissioner of Supply for Inverness­ shire. On the death of his wife he joined the Pretender at Bar-le-due, and became the pivot of the Rising of 1715. His last act was to extract one of his teeth, and with it to scrawl on the walls of his prison a benediction of King James VIII. That was on New Year's Day, 1743, on the eve of Charles Edward's Rebellion. He died January 7th of that year. Vide Gentleman's Mag. for 1743. List of deaths. "Wm. Mackintosh of Borlam (sic) January. He had been confined 15 years in the Castle of Edinburgh for being concerned in ye late Rebellion!" The Mackintoshes of Borlum descend from William Mackintosh (who married Bessie, daughter of Innes of Innermurkie), second son of Lauchlan Mackintosh, of that ilk, a great loyalist and a firm friend of Queen Mary, and grandson of William Mackintosh of that ilk, who was a man of great abilities, and was appointed, in 1544, by the Earl of Murray, Deputy-lieutenant of Inverness-shire, and had many other offices of trust conferred upon him.

*On the 13th September, 1715, Mackintosh proclaimed the Pretender King at Inverness, at the head of his regiment, on the 5th October he joined Mar at Perth, and was made Brigadier-General. He seized Leith, and joined Mr. Forster in Northumberland, but had to surrender to General Carpenter at Preston on the 16th November. He was then sent to Newgate with one of his sons, and escaped on the 4th May, 1716; the Corporation of London offered £200 for his capture, to which the Government added £1000. A handbill issued at the time, now in the British Museum, describes him as "a tall raw-boned man about 60, fair-complexioned, beetle-browed, gray-eyed, speaking with a broad Scotch accent." He was the author of " Essay on Ways and Means of Enclosing • . . Lands in Scotland," Edin., 1729, and "Essays on the Husbandry of Scotland," 1732. Compton Reade, sen., Esq., in a letter to General Meredith Read, dated Orsett Hall, Essex, 27th December, 1888, describing him as "Captain afterwards Brigadier-General Mackintosh," says:-"In 1715 he was taken prisoner at Preston with many of the clan Chattan, which he led, confined in Newgate, broke out and found refuge with his brother-in-law, Thomas, in Ipsden Basset Manor House, while his followers bivouacked on Basset Waste, ever since and in conseguence called Scots' Common. From thence he crossed the Downs to Shoreham, and joined his king at Versailles." In Hogg's Jacobite Relics occur these lines:- Brave Derwentwater he is dead, From his fair body they took the head, But Mackintosh and his friends are fled And they'll set the hat on another head. It was a coincidence that the Brigadier's wife's cousin, Love, had married Winnington, then Secretary at War; and that another cousin of hers, Sir Thomas Reade, Bart., M.P., was with his brother, General George Reade, M.P., a warm supporter of the Whigs, and in the Household of King George. When he reached Ipsden his father-in-law, Edward Reade, lay dying. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

The family of Mackintosh, into which Eva, only daughter and heir of Dougal Phaol, Captain of the clan Chattan, married 1282, is deduced from Shaw, or Sheagh, second son of Duncan McDuff, the second of that name, and 3rd Earl of Fife. This Shaw or Sheagh being sent by King -Malcolm IV., in the year II 63, to repress a rebellion in Moray land, whirh he effected m a most signal manner, was rewarded with the Constabulary of the Castle of Inverness, and from his residence among the people of the country, who spoke the Gaelic only, was called Mac-in-tosh-ich, that is to say, Thane's son, or the principal and first r:nan in dignity in the country, and so became the first of the name and the progenitor of a long line of chiefs, as is very obvious from the present one being the 25th chief of that name, and 21st of the clan Chattan. Two of the chiefs had the honour of knighthood; Lachlan, the 17th Laird, who was knighted by King Charles, and was made a Knight of the Bedchamber; and .tEneas, the 23rd Laird, who was also created a Baronet by George III. (See Burke's Extinct Baronetcies).

ARMS OF MACKINTOSH, OF THAT ILK. -Quarterly: 1st, Or, a lion rampant gules; 2nd, Argent, a dexter hand fessways couped at the wrist and holding a human heart gules; 3rd, Azure, a boar's head couped or; 4th, Or, a lymphad, her oars in saltire sable. Crest.-A cat-a-mountain saliant guardant proper. Supporters.-Two wild cats, proper. Motto over the crest.-Touch not the cat, bot a glove. AUTH0RITIEs.-Bu1·ke's Landed Gentry, 2nd edition (1847), Vol. II., p. 807: and 7th edition (1886), Vol. II., p. 1193. Burke's General Armor11. The fourth wife of Edward Reade ot Ipsden was SusANNA. Married in 1697, when her husband was seventy years of age. Sole executrix to his Will, dated 2 rst February, 1712. During the greater part of her married life she resided in the present Ipsden House with William and Ellen Blackall. She bore her husband two sons, of whose future nothing is known. Immediately after Edward Reade's death, a letter was addressed to Thomas, his heir, demanding certain of her effects, by a barrister of Pump Court, named Oliver· Marton; and Susanna is alleged to have married him. This, Mr. E. A. Reade's supposition, is refuted by the fact of the gentleman having married twice, neither of his two wives being Susanna. ( Vide Burke's Landed Gentry). The late Mr. Compton Reade asserted that she married a barrister named Bellairs, and with her children went to the West Indies. The elder of the two sons borne by Susanna, his fourth wife, to Edward Reade of Ipsden was EDWARD READE, born 12th May, 1699. Baptized at Ipsden, 28th May. Extract of a Jetter from Philip Edward to his brother Thomas, then in London, dated I psden, 4th June, 1699. "I suppose it is no news for you to hear that the Lady is brought to bed with a son and heir, and that the old Countess is here. The christening was on Sunday last, the Gossipps were Mr. Lydall, Mr. Reade, the Minister, and the old C. My father would fain have had me, but I gott out of the way." The "old Countess" was the widow of Cromwell, Earl of Ardglass, nee Russell of Strensham-Edward Reade's cousin, who married for her second husband Cotton of Beresford Hall, the poet and angler. The second son was JOHN READE, born 20th February, 1707, when his father was 80 years of age, Baptized at Ipsden, 22.nd March.

JOHN, eldest son and heir of Thomas Reade of Ipsden by Rebecca, daughter of William Blackall, Esq., of Braziers Park, was born 14th January, 1705, and baptized at Ipsden. He inherited the estate on the death of his father, being then 15 years of age. By thrift and skill he continued to farm the more productive portion, his books remaining to show the large profits realised. Thereby he cleared his inheritance of liabilities and added to its area. To obtain capital he demolished the manor house erected by Thomas Rede for Katherine Vachell in 1540, felled the timber and broke up the park, utilising the old manor house of the Cottesmores at Ipsden Huntercornbe for a residence, and in his later_ A RECORD OF THE REDES, days adding thereto a wing. Although a practical man he displayed sentiment. On a pane of glass at Ipsden Basset he cut with a diamond "Miss Brigham, Miss Brigham, she has no faults, or I no faults dare spy!" The Brighams had obtained the estate of Cane (or Canons) End at the dissolution of the monasteries, and the Miss Brigham referred to was BRIDGET, younger of the two co-heiresses of Thomas, squire of Cane End. Her marriage bond was dated at Oxford, 20th April, 1729, but it was her sister, who married Vanderstegen, the son of one of William the Third's Dutchmen, who obtained Cane End. By Bridget Brigham John Reade had (1) JOHN, born 23rd June. Baptized at Ipsden, 21st July, 1731. (2) THOMAS, born 10th July, 1734. Died in infancy. In the Register of St. John's College, Cambridge, is the following: "John Reade, son of John Reade, gentleman, born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire; School Marlborough, Wilts (Mr. Stone) ; admitted Pensioner; Tutor, Mr. Powell, 18th April, 1750, cet. 18. B.A. 1754. Did not proceed to M.A." The Cambridge Chronicle, 1st February, 177 2, inserts this : "Married at Hammersmith, on Sunday, 26th January, 1772, Rev. John Reade, B.A, to Miss Breedon, only daughter of John Breedon, Esq.'' This John Breedon was the squire of Delabere Court, or as it then was styled Bere, or Bare Court, Pangbourne, Berks. His daughter KATHERINE was an heiress, and in consequence John Reade made no provision for his eldest son in his will. Tradition affirms that the Rev. John Reade was ordained to the Curacy of Pi shill, a Chapelry of N ettlebed, Oxon. On 25th March, 1771, i.e. just before his marriage, he was instituted to the rectory of Rollright Parva, Oxon, on the nomination of Sir John Reade, 5th Bart., of Shipton Court. On 23rd June, 1789, a new Rector was instituted to Rollright Parva, on the death of the said Rev. John Reade, B.A. Patron, Sir John Reade, 6th Bart. (then) of Oddington Park, Gloucestershire [ Oxford Diocesan Registry]. These entries sum up the career of the Rev. John Reade. He died childless, having survived his father twelve years. ARMS OF BREEDON,-Gules. A lion rampant arg. with an orle of 8 calvary nails or crest. A demilion rampant couped arg. holding in the dexter paw a cross pattee fitchee at the base gules. In 1739 Bridget Reade died, and on 8th November was buried at Ipsden. ARMS OF BRIGHAM,-Arg. a Fleur de lys within an orle of seven martlets sa. In 1742 at Brit well Salome Church, Oxon, John Reade married as his second wife MARTHA, daughter of William Bartholomew, , of Ipsden, whose sister Elizabeth, baptized at Ipsden, rnth February, 1719, and buried there 19th October, 1766, on 22nd January, 1750, married the Rev. William Thomas, B.D., Vicar of Ipsden. The Bartholomews, an old family, were settled first at Burford, Oxon, then at Aldworth and Moreton, Berks. The last of the race died at Streatley in 1860 very highly respected. Martha was born at Ipsden, and baptized there 14th April, 17 I7. In the winter of 1770 she went with her husband on a visit to Sir John Reade, 5th Bart., at Shipton Court, and died there suddenly. She was buried at Ipsden, 16th December, leaving issue by John Reade-Thomas, George, Martha. Her husband survived her just seven years, being buried at Ipsden, 15th December, 1777. Will dated 30th July, 1777. Proved at Oxford, 22nd January, 1778, the trustees being W. Vanderstegen, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. Lichfield, the executor Sir R. Price, of Blount's Court. THOMAS, the elder son by his second wife of John Reade, of Ipsden, was born 14th June, 1 743, and baptized at Ipsden, I 5th June. On his marriage, at Ipsden, 15th November, 1773, with FRANCES, daughter and heiress of John Lydall, Esq., of Uxmore, Oxon, which lady was born r 746, his father settled on him the estate of Stoke Marmvon or Little Stoke, inherited from the Blackalls, who had inherited it from the Hildesleys, the successors of the Marmyons. Thomas Reade is alluded to as "Tomy" in several letters addressed by Sir John Reade, 5th Bart., to his father. He was also mentioned in Sir John Reade's will. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 71

By her Thomas Reade had :- ( r) LYDALL, buried at Ipsden, 4th October, 1779. (2) ELIZABETH, baptized at Wallingford, 17t)1 July, 1777. She married 9th April, 1807, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Lieutenant-Colonel John Reade, son of Sir John Reade, 5th Bart., of Shipton Court, who died at Fort William, 1814, cet 60. They had issue-(1) Penelope Harriet, baptized 3rd March, 1808, at Richmond, buried at St. Mary's, Reading, IIth May, 1825. (2) Eliza Jane, born 1809, buried at Paddington 31st October, r8ro. Elizabeth, wife Lieutenant-Col. Reade died in 1816. Mrs. Thomas Reade died at Uxmore, rst September, and was buried at Ipsden, 5th September, 1782. Her husband died at Stoke Marmyon, 20th December, 1804, and was buried at Ipsden 28th December. He married as a second wife one Mary Stevens, who died 9th May, 1846. Buried at Ipsden, 16th May, cet 85. ARMS OF LYDALL.-(1) in St. Mary's, Reading (Coates, p. 81). A fess. or, charged with 3 torteaux. (2) Visitation of Berks, 1664. Azure. A saltire or, on a fess of the last three pellets. Crest-out of a mum] Coronet cheqay or and azure a heron's head of the first. To this Burke adds-" In the beak a scroll inscribed Et patribus et posteritate.' " GEORGE, the younger son of John Reade, by his second wife, was born at Ipsden, 17th July, 1749, and baptized there 18th July. He married in 1774, Ann, daughter of Rev. W. Thomas, B.D., Vicar of Ipsden, his first cousin, and by her (who was born at Ipsden, 12th June, 17 5 3, baptized 18th July, and died at Reading, 23rd December, r 840, being buried at lpsden, 30th December), had JOHN, vide next Chapter; and MARTHA, born 8th February, baptized 28th May, 1777, at Ipsden, and married 1807, Rev. Nicholas Halse, of Wadham College, Oxford, Rector of Welford, Northants, who died within the year of their marriage. Mrs. Halse died at Kenilworth, 1st June, 1863, having been a widow 56 years, and was buried at Ipsden 6th June. Of her mother's sisters, the Misses Thomas, the elder Elizabeth, born 13th October, 1751, baptized at Ipsden, 25th October, married at Ipsden, 24th October, 1782, John Trumper, Esq., of Harefield, Middlesex; and Mary, the younger, born 25th May, baptized 22nd June at Ipsden, became in 1800 the second wife of Caleb Lowdham, Esq., of Thurnby Manor, Leicester. Their father, Rev. W. Thomas, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was son of Rev. W. Thomas, Head Master of Leicester School, (who died 6th December, 1713, and was buried at St. Mary's, Leicester, M.I.) by Ann, daughter of Thomas Ludlam, Esq. He was buried at Ipsden, 19th October, 1766. George Reade died of pneumonia 29th July, 1776, and was buried at Ipsden, 2nd August, thus predeceasing his father one year and four months.-.: (r) MARTHA, daughter of John Reade by his second wife, was born 15th April, baptized 16th April. Buried 25th April, 1745, at Ipsden. (2) MARTHA, her younger sister, born at Ipsden, 12th October, 1755, and baptized nth November. She married roth February, 1783, at Ipsden, the Rev. Coventry Townshend Powys Lichfield, D.D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Vicar of Southstoke. They had issue: (1) John Reade Litchfield. (2) Coventry Henry Litchfield, buried at Checkendon, 1872. She was buried 2nd August, 1839 in the graveyard of the chapel attached to Allnutt's Hospital, .

* His widow, who enjoyed the small estate of Holmer, Oxon, for life, under the will of John Reade, her father-in-law, took up her abode at Howberry, near Wallingford, Ipsden House having been let by the trustees for the term of her son's minority. The author of this Vol. was nearly seven years old at her decease, and can recall .her features. She was two years the senior of Dr. Martin Joseph Routh, who admitted him to Magdalen College, being then 98 years of age, in April, 1854. CHAPTER VII.

THE IPSDEN LINE FROM z775. JOHN READE=j=ANNA MARIA, dau. of Major Scott-Waring, M.P. 1775-1849. I 1773-1863. I I I I JOHN THURLOW GEORGE EDWARD HENRY JONATHAN WILLIAM BARRINGTON=pELIZABETH, dau. of (1797--1827). (1798--1816). (1801-21). (1803-81). I Capt. MURRAY, R.N. s,p. s.p. s,p. Issue (with others). (1810-95).

Rev. HENRY s} JOHNTFRANCES A. VINCENT, (1840-84). issue (with others). HERBERT VINCENT=HANNAH G. BUTLER. (1870). i I I EDWARD ANDERDON, C.B.TELIZA BURNARD CoMPTON,JANE,d. of Ralph Walker, Esq., CHARLES, D.C.L. (1807-86). (1817-57). (18n-92). I(18u-88). (1814-84). Captain BURNARD E. (and others). Issue (with others). s.p. (1839-78). s.p. I I Rev. C0MPTONTEMMA SCOTT-WARING ANNA MARIA=Hon. R. A. J. DRUMMOND (1834). I (1846). (1835-71). (1820-87). (issue). I I COMPTON SCOTT G. COMPTON (1869). (1870). late Lieut. 5th Dragoon Guards. I I SOPHIA BROOKE=Rev, Canon W00DR00FFE, B.D. JULIA SusANNA-,-Capt. ALLEN ELLIN0R HASTINGS (1799-1856). (1789-1878). (1804--34). F. GARDINER, (1805-78). (issue). (issue). R.N. (died 1851). s.p.

OHN, son of George Reade of Ipsden, born 25th November, 1775, baptized 8th April, 1776, at Ipsden, succeeded his grandfather, John, 1777. Educated at Rugby, 1784, and OrielJ College, Oxford. Married at" Bromley, Kent, 9th February, 1796, Anna Maria­ born at Dinapore, 7th July, 1773-eldest daughter of Major Scott-Waring, M.P., Military Secretary to Warren Hastings, and his defender in the House of Commons, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Blackrie.* Mr. Reade was J.P. and D.L. for Oxon, and for 40 years Chairman of the Henley Bench. (For the social aspect of Ipsden House, during his lifetime, see Memoi"r of Charles Reade, by C. L. Reade and Compton Reade, 1887). He died 24th October, and was buried at Ipsden, 27th October, 1849; his wife who died at Reading, 19th August, was buried by his side, 24th August, 1863. Major was born at Charlton Hall, Salop, 24th October 1747, being the eldest son of Jonathan Scott (who died August 1778) by Mary second daughter of

* Alexander Blac!nie1 ~u_rgeon, pra9tjsed for _nearly 40 years at Bromley, Kenb, where he died 29th May, 1772. Author of a '' Drnquisit10n on Medwmes which dissolve Stone," 1766. 2nd Ed. 1771. He married Anne sister of Rev. John Vade, Rector of Croydon and Chaplain to Archbishop Herring, who died 8th June 1765' cet. 42, leaving a daughter, Mary, who died 28th March, 1790, ret. 28. Elizabeth Blackrie was ba'ptized 19th April, 1745-not 1746, as stated in Diet, Nat. Biog. under Scott-Waring. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 73

Humphrey Sandford of the Isle ofRossall, High Sheriff for Salop. Jonathan Scott's second son, Richard, was Lieut.-Colonel, and served under Sir Eyre Coote and Lord Cornwallis; the third son, Jonathan, a celebrated Orientalist, who translated The_ Arabi'an Nights from the French of Gallaud, was Professor at H aileybury [ Vide Diet.. Nat. Bz'ography]; the fifth son, Major Henry, was Commissioner of Police at Bombay. John Scott received his commission circa. 1766, rose to be Major in the Bengal division, and was sent by Warren Hastings to London as his agent in December, 1781 [for his public career in connection with the Hastings trial, vide Miss Burney's Diary, Macaulay's Essay, and Lord Rosebery's Life of Pitt, in each of which he is censured for over-zeal]. Sat as M.P. for West Looe 1784-90. Elected in 1790 for Stockbridge. In 1798, on the c'.feath of his cousin, Richard Hill Waring, he succeeded to the estates of his great uncle, Adam Waring, of W oodcote, in Salop, and Cheshire. The latter he sold in 1800 for £80,000. He assumed the additional name and arms of ·waring, and purchased Peterborough House, Parson's Green, which he made the scene of lavish hospitality. Died in Half Moon Street, W., 5th May, 1819.* He married three wives-(1) Elizabeth Blackrie, by whom he had (1) Edward Hastings, author of Persia, who married Miss Mary Maclean, and by her had (1) John, Lieut. Bengal Horse Artillery, s.p.; (2) Captain Edward, Bengal Cavalry, s.p.; (3) Henry Reade, who married first, Miss Mary Agar, and by her had Emma-now Mrs. Compton Reade-and secondly, Miss Jane Wass, by whom he had Mary, and Annie, wife of H. E. 0. Green, Esq., Secretary to the Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes. (4) Caroline, wife of Rev. Philip Powys, Vicar of Hullavington, who left as surviving issue Ellen. (5) Emma, s.p. (2) Charles, on the staff of Lord Minto, s.p. (3) Anna Maria, wife Of John Reade of Ipsden. (4) Eliza Jane, wife of Rev. George Stanley Faber, B. D., Master of Sherburn Hospital, by whom she had Charles Waring, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn ; General William Raikes, who married Mary Anne, daughter of Rev. Canon Woodrooffe, and had issue Reginald Stanley. Major Scott-Waring married- secondly Maria, daughter. and heiress of Jacob Hughes of Cashel, a Roman Catholic, and by her had (1) John, in the Guards and at Waterloo, who left a daughter, Mrs. Raddy; and (2) Augusta, wife of Rev. P. Frye, Vicar of Brompton, by whom she had Percival; Henry, Madras Infantry ; Arthur, Oriel College, Oxford; Augusta, who married the Vicomte De Lubersac, and had issue Rene. Major Scott-Waring married thirdly Mrs. Estin, widow of a naval officer, who had previously born to the 8th Duke of Hamilton a daughter, Anne Douglas, wife of the 3rd Lord Rossmore. Her portrait exists among a collection of engravings at the British Museum. That of Major Scott-Waring by Masquerier is in the possession of H. V. Reade of Ipsden, Esq.

*Some letters from Major Scott-Waring of interest are preserved among theipsden Muniments. Among others one recording his visit to Prince Lucien Bonaparte ; and another enclosing a copy of a letter written by Lord Minto, Governor General of India, to Colonel MacMahon, Secretary to the Prince Regent. This letter throws a side light on the intimate relations subsisting at that time between H.R. H. and Major Scott-Waring. It runs thus:- Calcutta, 14th December, 1811. My Dear Sir,-May I beg you to lay me at the feet of the Prince Regent, and to acquaint his Royal Highness that Mr. Scott-Waring [Major Scott-Waring's eldest son, and Mrs. Reade's brother] was placed in the Jfrst situation that opened after his a1·rival in Bengal. I hope to have an opportunity at the departure of the January Fleet to advance him to an office of more emolument. His brother, Lieutenant Charles Scott-Waring, is placed on my body guard, and is likely to be soon adjutant of the corps. I shall do all I can for his advantage. He is one of the very finest young men in India, or indeed elsewhere, and has distinguished himself extremely in Java, on which service the body guard volunteered, &c., &c., &c. My dear Sir, your faithful and obedient humble Servant, MINTO. Major Scott-Waring's letter containing the above was written from Peterborough House, . Sh_ortly after, a masked ball was given there, the Prince Regent and his brothers Leing present. On the followmg morning the hostess, Major Scott-vVaring's second wife, was discovered at the foot of the stair­ case, still masked, but with her neck broken. Much of hi~ fortune was expended on the Hastmgs trial, and in entertaining the l'rince Regent and his Royal brothers ; the residue went to the children of his second wife, and to his widow, who died in 1868, supposed to be one hundred years of age. IO 74 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

By the alliance of John Reade with Anna Maria Scott the Ipsden Reades possess the following Royal descents :- Descent from JOAN, commonly called "The Fair Maid of Kent," daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, son of Edward I., by Margaret, daughter of Philip III. of France. THOMAS HOLLAND, Earl of Kent= JOAN, daughter of Edmund Plantagenet of Woodstock, commonly called I "The Fair Maid of Kent." -I THOMAS HOLLAND, Earl of Kent= ALICE, daughter of Richard, Earl of Arundel. I-7 MARGARET HOLLAND= JOHN BEAUFORT, eldest son by his third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. I -I EDMUND BEAUFORT=ALIANORE, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. I -I ANNE BEAUFORT=Sm WILLIAM PASTON of Paston. _I I ANNE PASTON = GILBERT, son of Sir Gilbert Talbot (whose father was second Earl of Shrewsbury, and whose I mother was Elizabeth, daughter of James Butler, Earl of Ormonde), by Elizabeth, --1 daughter of Lord Scrope. * MARY TALBOT= SIR THOMAS ASTLEY, I --1 GILBERT ASTLEY= DOROTHY, daughter of Sir Thomas Giffard of Chillington. I -I THOMAS ASTLEY = MARY, daughter of Walter Aston of Tixall. I -I WALTER ASTLEY= MARY, daughter of Francis Trentham of Rowcester. I_ I MARGERY ASTLEY= ALEXANDER WOODD of Shinewood. I -I LAWREN0E WOODD=MARY, daughter of Edward Onslow.t I_ I DOROTHY WooDD = ADAM w ARING of . I_ I DOROTHY WARING=JOHN SOOTT of Shrewsbury.

_I- I JONATHAN SooTT = MARY, daughter of Humphrey Sandford of the Isle of Rossall. *Lord Scrope of Bolton, who married Alice, daughter of Lord Scrope of UpsaIJ, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Nevill, Marquess of Montacute, was the son of John, Lord Scrope, by Joan, daughter of William Lord Fitzhugh, by Margaret, daughter of Lord Willoughby D'Eresby. The latter Lord Scrope's father, was Henry, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Lord Scrope of Masham; and his father, Richard Lord Scrope, married Margaret, daughter of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, whose second wife was Joan Beaufort, dau!)'hter of John of Gaunt. Margaret Nevill's mother was daughter of Hugh, Earl of Stafford, K.G., by Philippa. daughter of Thos. Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Hugh was heir of Ralph, first Earl of Stafford, by Margaret, daughter of Hugo De Audeley, of Denford, Northants. tEdward was son of Richard Onslow of Onslow, by Margaret, daughter of Richard Wycherley, son of Edward Onslow (by Joan, daughter of Roger Fowler of Broomshill, her mother being Sybil, sister of Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield), son of Humphrey Onslow, Sheriff of Salop, 1566, who married Margaret Wrottesley. This htdy's mother was Dorothy, daughter of Lord Dudley, by Maud, daughter of Thomas, Lord Clifford, whose mother was Joan, daughter of Lord Dacres, whose grandmother was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Percy (Hotspur), and whose great-grandmother was daughter of Lord Roos of Hamlake. The Earls Onslow descend from the above-named Humphrey, as also Tankerville Chamberla~,ne, of Cranbury, Esq. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 75

MAJOR JOHN SooTT-WARING, M.P. =ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander Blackrie.

-'-, ANNA MARIA SaoTT=JoHN READE, of Ipsden. In the above descent, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir ofSir Gilbert Talbot by Anne Paston, married John Lyttleton of Franckley. Their son, Sir John Lyttleton, had a son Gilbert, M.P. for Worcester, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphry Coningsby of Neen Sollars and Hampton Court, Herefordshire; their daughter, Anne,= Sir Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford, whose daughter Mary married Thomas Reade of Barton, whose son Sir Compton Reade was ancestor of the Shipton Reades, and whose younger son Edward was ancestor of the Ipsden Reades. There is therefore a double descent from Edmund of Woodstock. The Lords Lyttleton in consideration of their descent have the right to quarter the Royal Arms of the Plantagenets, and of the Royal Family of France. [Vide supra, page 29]. .

Descent from Edward I. :- EDWARD I. =secondly, MARGARET, daughter of Philip III. of France, 1299. !--, THOMAS PLANTAGENET, Earl Marshall=ALICE, daughter of Sir Roger Halys. I I MARGARET PLANTAGENET=JoHN, Earl Segrave. I--, ELIZABETH SEGRAVE=JoHN, Lord Mowbray. I--, THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall=ELIZABETH, daughter and co-heir of Richard Fitzalan, --,I Earl of Arundel. ISABEL MOWBRAY= 1st, HENRY, son of William, Lord Ferrers of Groby; and 2nd, JAMES, sixth Lord Berkeley.

_I__ I MAURICE,'--, Lord Berkeley=IsABEL, daughter of Sir Philip Meade, of . =Mrs. s. WIDALL, I--, ANNE BE:RKELEY=Sir WILLIAM DENNYS, of Dynham. I--, ELEANOR DENNYS=WILLIAM LYGON, of Madresfield, grandson of Richard Lygon, who=ANlrn, one of the co-heiresses-with the wives of William Rede* and Lord Willoughby de Broke- I of the Barony of Beauchamp of Powyk. CATHERINE LYJoN=THOMAS FoLLIOTT, twelfth in descent from Sir Richard Folliott, of Bickmarsh, whose I great-grandfather was Lord of Fenwick and Folliott temp. William the Conqueror.

Sm HENRY FbLLIOTT, created Baron Folliott of Ballyshannon, January 22nd, 1639, in the Peerage of I--, Ireland=ANNE, daughter of Sir , of Stoke-sub-Hambdon, Somerset. THOMAS LORD FOLLIOTT, Governor of Londonderry, 1645=REBECOA FRENCH. 1__ I REBECCA FOLLIOTT=JoB WALKER, of Ferney Hall, son of Richard Walker, by Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Herbert, to Charles I., who was brother of Lord Herbert of tCherbury and also of George Herbert, the poet ; great-grandson of Sir Richard Herbert, brother of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. *This William was Rede of Breedon, Gloucestershire, representative of the Redes of Castle Moyle and Castle Roche. tThe late W. R. Stokes, Esq., who married Anne Dorothert, niece of Major John Scott-Waring, M. P., inherited through his wife one of the MSS. of Lord Herbert of Cherhury, the deistic writer of the Jacobean period, entitled "De Veritate." It was originally given by Lord Herbert of Cherbury to his brother, Sir Henry Herbert, tbe ancestor of the Scott-Warings, Stokes, and Reades, through the Walker family (vide supra), and was presented by Mr. W. R. Stokes to the British Museum. A RECORD OF THE REDES,

REBEOIA WALKER=HuMPHREY SANDFORD, of the Isle of Rossall, January 13th, 1717-18. --1 MARY SANDFORD=JoNATHAN SooTT, of Charlton Hall, Shrewsbury.

-'--1 MAJOR!--, JOHN ScOTT• WARING, M.P. = ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander Blackrie, M. D. ANNA MARIA SoOTT=JoHN READE, of Ipsden.

The following gives a double descent from Edward I. :­

EvwaRD I.= (2ndly) MARGARET, daughter of Philip III. of France. I__ I '!.'ROMAS OF BROTHERTON= ALICE, daughter of Sir Roger Halys. I I . MARGARET, Duchess of Norfolk= JOHN, Lord Segrave. I__ I ELIZABETH SEGRAVE= JoHN, 4th Lord Mowbray. 1__ 1 THOMAS, Duke of Norfolk= ELIZABETH, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel I I Lady MARGARET MOWBRAY=Sir ROBERT HOWARD. _I_I CA.THERINE HOWARD=Sir EDWARD NEVILL, Lord Bergenny (vide infra).

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EDWARD lst=(lstly) ELEANOR, daughter of Ferdinand of Castille. I --1 EDWARD 2nd= ISABEL, daughter of Philip 4th of France. I EDWARD 3rd!::: PHILIPPA, daughter of William Count of Holland. _I_ I . JOHN OF GAUNT= (3rdly) KATHERINE, daughter of Sir Payn Roet. I__ I JOAN BEAU~'ORT = (2nd) RALPH NEVILL, 1st Earl of Westmorland. _I_ I *Sir EDWARD NEVILL, Lord Bergenny=CATHERINE HOWARD (vide supra). I--, MARGARET NEVILL= JOHN BROOKE, Lord Cobham. ~1- THOYAS Lord Cobham=DoROTHY, daughter of Sir Henry Reydon by Anne, daughter of Sir Geoffrey ' Boleyn, and great-aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn.

*See Riyal descent through the Brocket family frvm .Tohn of G:,unt (p. 2!). Sir Edward Nevill's sister, Joan=Thomas, Lord Fauconberg, and waa ancestress of M~ry, co-heiress of Sir John Brocket and wife of Sir Thomas Reade. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 77

ELIZABETH BROOKE= Sir THOMAS WYATT. I_ I Sir THOMAS'-­ WYATT (beheaded 1554) = JANE, daughter of Sir William Hawte. JANE WYATT=CHARLES' SCOTT, --,I ANTHONY SCOTT= daughter of Richard Betton by Eleanor, daughter of Richard Wycherley, and sister --,I of Margaret Wycherley, wife of Edward Onslow. [See page 74, note]. ISAAC SCOTT= ELIZABETH MYTTON. I--1 ELIZABETH SCOTT= RICHARD SCOTT of Charlton Hall, Salop. I-, RICHARD SCOTT= SUSANNA GARDNER, _I_ I . JOHN SCOTT=DoROTHY,-,I , daughter of Adam Warmg of Woodcote, Salop. JON ATHAN l::looTT = MARY, daughter of Humphrey Sandford of the Isle of Rossall. I --1 JOHN SCOTT-WARING, M.P. =ELIZABETH BLACKRIE. I-, ANNA M.1.RIA SCOTT::=JOHN READE of Ipsden.

Royal

MIOHAEL SoOT, of Brabourne = EMMA • , --,I WILLIAM SCOT, of Bra.bourne = MARCELLA _\_ I . JOHN SOOT, of Brabourne, High Constable of Castle= daughter of. . . De la Cumbe. I --\ Sir WILLIAM SooT, M.P. for East Kent = ISABEL, daughter of Vincent Herbert, alias Finche, ancestor of I the Earl$ of Winchilsea. -I Sir JOHN SOOT, of Scot's Hall, Comptroller of the Household to Edward IV., Lord Warden of the Cinque _I_~ Ports = AGNES, daughter of William Beaufitz, of Gillingham. I Sir WILLIAM SooT, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle= SIBELLA,* daughter of Sir John Lewkenort of Goring, Sussex ; their younger son, Edward, :j: possessed the Mote, Igtham. Their elder I son, • -I S1r JOHN SOOTTE, of Scot's Hall, High Sheriff of Kent, 1528 = ANNE, daughter of Reginald Pympe, of Nettlestead, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Pashley.§ Their son, I Sir REGINALD ScOTTE, = (1), EMMELINE, daughter of Sir T. Kempe, and by her had a son, Sir Thomas Scotte, of Scot's Hall, who carried on the Scots' Hall ]me; and (2), Mary, daughter of Sir Bryan Tuke, by whom he had Charles= Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt I of Allington Castle, and their son, Anthony = the daughter and heiress of R. Betuon, Esq., of Betton Strange. Their son Isaac Scott = Elizabeth Mytton, and by her had a daughter I Elizabeth, who= Richard Scott (vide infra).

*Sibella Lewkenor was decended from the Red Comyn, brother of the Black Comyn, who= Mary, daughter of John Le Balliol, and Devorguilla, his wife. Thus : (1) John, the Red Comyn, Regent of Scotland, murdered by Robert Bruce, = Joan, sister of Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and niece of King Edward I. (thereby giving a further Royal Descent), Their elder daughter, Elizabeth= Richard, Earl Talbot, Their younger daughter, (2) Joan= David Strabolgie, Earl of Athole and Lord of Badenoch. (3) David, Earl of Athole = Katherine, daughter of Henry de Beaumont, by Alice Cumyn, Countess of Buchan. Henry De Beaumont was 4th son of Louis, 2nd son of John, King of Jerusalem, nephew of Sb. Louis. (4) David, thirteenth Earl of Athole = Isabel, daughter of Lord Ferrers of Groby. (5) Philipp!\ = 1st-Sir Ralph Percy; 2nd-Sir John Halsham, of West Grinstead, by whom she had a daughter, (6) Johnna= Sir John '.Lewkenor, and by him was mother of Sibell11, wife of Sir William Scott (vide supra). t Descended through the families of Camoys 11nd Mortimer from Philippa of Clarence, granddaughter of Edward the third. ·· ·· :j: The earliest connection the Scotts formed with Salop was by the marriage of William Scott of the Mote, with Mary, daughter of William, Lord Windsor, He was fined £300, and imprisoned for recusancy. His sister Elizabeth= Sir John Robsarb. His son= Mary, sister of Sir Walter Leveson, ancestor of the Dukes of Sutherland; and their son William= Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Peshall. It was owing to Protestant persecution that the Scotts migrated from Kent to , though in the next generation they appear to have accepted the Anglican Creed; while Captain Jonathan Scott, after serving in the 7th Dragoon Guards and being present at Minden, became one of Lady Huntingdon's preachers. § Eliza.beth Pashley was descended from the Fitzalans, Earls of Arundel and ancestors of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Le Despensers, and Woodvilles.- Thus: (1) Sir Robert Pashley= Anne, daughter of Sir John Howard. (2) Sir Robert Pashley = Philippa, daughter of Sir Richard Sergieux, by Philippa, daughter o Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and Isabel, daughter of Hugh Le Despenser, Earl of Winchester. (3) Sir John Pashley= Elizabeth Woodville, aunt of the Consort of King Edward IV. Their son, John Pashley, had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Reginald Pympe of Nettlestead (antainted 1483). Their daughter, Aune, married Sir John Scotte, or Scot, of Scot's Hall (vide supra). A RECORD OF THE REDES. 79

The young11r son of Sir John Scotts, and brother of Sir Reginald, viz.:­ RICHARD SCOTT= MARY, daughter of George Whettenhall" of Hextal Place, Kenb. I -I RICHARD SCOTT, of Shrew!bury = ANNE -,I ISAAC ScoTT = ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas Stephens, by Eleanor, daughter of Roger Berrington of I Salop.

RIORARD ScoTJ = his cousin, ELIZABETH ScOTT of Betton ( vide supi·a, p. 78). Of their sons, Jonathan of I · Betton became Mayor of Shrewsbury, 1689. RICHARD S~ = SUSANNA, daughter .of John Gardner, Esq., of Shrewsbury, and had issue : lst-,J onathan I of Betton, whose daughter and heiress= Captain Richard Scott; 2nd-a son, viz. : 7 JOHN SCOTT= DOROTHY, daughter of Adam Waring, Esq., of Woodcote. I -I JONATHAN SCOTT= MARY, daughter of Humphrey Sandford of the Isle of Rossall. I -I Major JOHN SCOTT-WARING, M.P. = ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander Blacktie, of Bromley. I -I ANNA MARIA SCOTT= JORN READE, Esq., of Ipsden.

Descent from the Ancient Princes of Wales:-

GRUFFUDD AP CYNAN, King of All Wales=:ANGHARED, daughter of Owain ap Edwyn. I I OWAIN GWYNNED, Prince of North Wales== GWLADYS, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaiarn ap Caradoc. I - --i TOR WERTH, Prince of North Wales:::: MARGARET, daughter of Madoc ap Meredyth, Prince of Powy~. I__

CATHERINE LL!WELLYNf=ToRWERTH VYCHAN, the direct descendant of Tudor Trevor, whose wife was I--, Anghared, daughter of Howell, King of South Wales. ToRWERTH, Lord of Chirk Castle, living in 1313=GLADYS, daughter of Torwerth ap Gryffudd. I__ I . EDNYFED GAM=GWLADYS, he1rese of Llewellyn ap Madoc.

_1__ I TEWAN, settled 'in Salop. 1_ I HOWELL, L I DEICUS. I_ I LLEWELLYN, '--1 EDWARD, who, on his marriage with Joan, daughter of - Hosier, adopted bis wife's surname.

" Mary Whettenhall married as a second husband Fulke Onslow, Clerk of the Parliament, and related to the Warings of Woodcote. t The brother of this Catherine was the historic::;l Prince Llewellyn (see the following Royal descent). 80 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

THOMAS HosrER=(19 Henry VIII.), ALICE, daughter of Thomas Trentham, of Shrewsbury. I__ I JOHN Hosnm, of Woodcote, who died 13th June, 1591= Cicely, daughter of Richard Phillips, of Meole Brace. I__

MARGERY HosiER=RrnHARD \VARING, descended from Warin, or Warenne de OnnPslowe, or Onslow, A.D. I 1311. He was born at Charlton Hall, Salop, 1547. --1 NIOHOT,AS \VARING (b. 1518, d. 1630)=MARY, 1orand-daughter of James Barker, of Haighmonrl Abbey, by I Dorothy, daughter of Richard Clive.

RICHARD W AR1NG, of The Hayes·= ELizABETH, daughter of Serjeant Levinz. I ADAM WARIJG (died 1700) = DOROTHY, daughter of Lawrence Woodd of Shinewood. I-, DOROTHY WARING*= JOHN SCOTT of Shrewsbury. '~I JONATHAN SCO'l'T := MARY, daughter of Humphrey Sandford of the Isle of Rossall. I_ I Major JOHN SCOTT-WARING, M.P. :=ELIZA, daughter of Alexander Blackrie of Bromley. _I_ I ANNA MARIA SCOTT (died 1863):=JOHN READE, of lpsden (died 1849).

Descent from KING JOHN and PRINCE LLEWELLYN. KING '--,JOHN=AGATHA FERRERS, JOAN PLANTAGENET=PRINCE LLEWELLYN, I I GwLADYB LLEWELLYN:=RALPH, Lord Mortimer. I I ROGER, Lord Mortimer=MAUD DE BRAOSE. I___ _ I EDMUND, Lord Mortimer=MARGARET, daughter of William de Fendles. '---­. I ROGER'-­ Mortimer, Earl of March=JoANE, daughter of Peter de Geneville. JOAN MoRTIMER:=JAMES,' Lord Audley. _,.,---.--I JOAN AUDLEY=Sir JOHN TOUCHET. I Sir. J ORN TOUCHET=I . . . . --,I JOHN TOUCHET, Lord Aurlley=lsahel *This lady's brother_ Richard, of The Hayes= Mai:y, da_ughter of Robert :8ill of '.J'ern or ~ttingham (now the seat of Lord Berwick, the desce_ndant of Robert Hill's Sister). They had rnsue, Richard Hill Waring (1718-98) who~ Mary, daughter of Sir George Wynne, Bart. of Leeswood. Dying without issue he bequeathed his estates to Major J. Scott-Waring, M.P. The family of the Wynnes is in the possession of H.F. J. Vaughan of Humphreston, Salop, Esq. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 81

ELIZABETH AUDLEY=Sir JORN BASKERVILLE. I I RALPH BASKERVILLE=ANNE, daughter of Sir John Blackett. I JOAN BABKEkvrLLE=Sir SYMON MILBOURNE, of Tillington. I I ELEANOR MILBOURNE=J ORN MOORE. I I • ELIZABETH MOORE=JOHN FOLLIOTT, I I THOMAS FOLLIO'l'T=0ATHERINE LYGON. I -I Lord FoLLIOTT=ANNE, daughter of Sir William Strode. I -I Lord FoLLIOTT;:::REBECCA FRENCH, I -I REBECCA FOLLIO'.!:T=J OB w ALKER, of Ferney Hall. I I REBECCA WALKER=HUMPHREY SANDFORD, of the Isle of Rossall. I I MARY SANDFORD;:::JONATHAN SCOTT. I I Major ScoTT-WARING=ELIZABETH BLACKRIE. 1_1 ANNA MARIA ScoTT=JonN READ:E, of Ipsden.

Of the above, Prince Llewellyn of Wales is the illustrious Prince of history. James, Lord Audley, fought at Poictiers, and was the great-grandson of James de Audley, by Eva, daughter of Longepee, Earl of Salisbury, the grarnlson of Fair Rosamond. Maud de Braose was daughtE>r of William de Braose by Eva, daughter of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and Isabel de Clare, daughter of Richard Strongbow, and granddaughter of Elizabeth de Clare, daughter of Robert de Beaumont,, whose mother was daughter of the Count Vermandois and wife of Hugh the Great, son of Henry the 1st of France. The descent of King John from Charlemagne and King Alfred of England need not be stated at length. It may be added that Maud, sister of the above Eva, daughter of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, married Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, and by him had a son, Ralph Bigod, who married Berta, daughter of Lord Furnival. Their daughter Isabel Bigod, married Gilbert de Lacy, and Ma11d de Lacy, their daughter, married Peter, second Baron de Geneville, who by Joan, daughter o[ Hugh le Brune, Count of Angoulesme, had a daughter Joane, wife o[ Roger Mortimer, Earl of March (vide supra).

Descent from EDWARD I. :-

EDWARD !.=ELEANOR, daughter of Ferdinand of Castille. I______I JOAN OF ACRE=GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl Gloucester. I I ELIZABETH DE 0LARE=THEOBALD DE VERDUN, I------1 :ELIZABETH DE VERDUN=HENRY, Lord FPrrers of Groby, II A RECORD OF THE REDES

ELIZABETH FERRERil=DAVID STRABOLGIE, Earl of Athol. I I PHILLIPPA STRABOLGIE=Sir JOHN HALSHAM, I - I RICHARD HALSHAM= • • daughter of JOHN THORLEGH, r-----.--1 JOANNA HALSHAM=S1r JOHN LEWKENOR. I------.--,, SYBELLA LEwKENOR=Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, I I Sir JOHN Soo=ANNE, daughter of REGINALD PYMPE. I I RICHA:itD ScoTT=MARY, daughter of Geo. Whettenhall, of , Kent.

'------1 RICHARD SCOTT=ANNlll , , , I I ISA.AO SOOTT=ELIZABETH STEFHENS, I____ ~

RICHARD SooTT=ELIZABETH, daughter of Isaac Scott, of Betton. I RICHARD'------: SooTT=SusANNA, daughter of John Gardner. JoHN SCOTT=DoR~THY,'----, daughter of Adam Waring, of Woodcote, Salop. JONATHAN Sco=M~RY, daughter of H. Sandford, of the Isle, I Major JOHN SCOTT-WARING, M.P.=ELIZA,I daughter of Alex. Blackrie,. M. D . 1____ _ I ANNA MARIA SCOTT=Joi!N READE, of Ipsden.

Of the above David Strabolgie, Earl of Athole, was grandson of David, Earl of Athole, who=Joan, daughter of The Red Comyn, by Joan, sister of Aylmer De Valence, and niece of Edward, brother of The Black Oomyn, who= Mary, daughter of John Le Balliol and Devorguilla, founders of Balliol College. His father, David, Earl of A thole= Katherine, daughter of Henry De Beaumont, by Alice Comyn, Oonntess of Buchan. Katherine De Beaumont's brother, John= Lady Alianore Plantagenet, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and great-granddaughter of Henry III. Henry De Beaumont, their father, was 4th son of Agnes De Beaumont, by Louis, 2nd son of John, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, and nephew of King Louis IX. of France. There exists therefore, a distinct descent through the De Beaumonts from the Royal House of France. David Strabolgie, Earl of Athole, by Elizabeth Ferrers, had two daughters, Elizabeth and Philipr:,a, whose wardship was purchased by Harry Hotspur, Earl of Northumberland, for 4,000 marks. He married them to his two sons-Elizabeth to Sir Thomas. and Philippa to Sir Ralph Percy. Sir Ralph dying s.p., Philippa married as her second husband Sir John Halsham or Aylsham, and thus became ancestress of the Scotts and Reades. Dying before her husband, she left a daughter= Falconer, Lord Mayor, and two sons, Sir Hugh, who died, s.p., and Richard, who was origin,i,lly a novice among the Celestines in Paris, but but did not proceed to the sub-diaconate, and= Miss Thorlegh, of West Grinstead. Their daughter, Joan, who=Sir John Lewkenor, had for her dowry the manor of Brabourne. Sir at the Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, and at her decease the Manor of Brabourne went to her daughter Sybella, wife of Sir W. Scot, of Scot's Hall. [See note to p. 78]. A RECORD OF THE RED.ES.

Descent from JOHN OF GAUNT, K.G., 4th Son of Edward III. :­ JoHN OF GAUNT= KATHERINE, daughter of Sir Payn Roet. I I JOAN DE BEAUFORT= RALPH NEVILL, Earl of Westmoreland. I . I Sir EDWARD NEVILL, Lord Bergavenny = ELIZABETH, daughter of R. Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester. I Sir GEORGE, 2nd lord Bergavenny = MARGARET, daughter of Sir Hugh Fenne. I I ELIZABETH NEVILL= THOMAS, son of Sir Edward Berkeley. I I ALIOE BERKELEY = GEORGE WHET'rENHALL, of East Peckham, Kent. c------1 I MARY WHETTEN!IALL =RIOIIARD ScoT, of Shrewsbury. -;------1 I RIOHARD SOOTT = ANNE, , , , I --1 ISAAC SCOTT = ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas Stephens, I -I RIOHARD SCOTT= ELIZABETH SCOTT, of Betton Strange. I --1 RIOHARD SCOTT= SUSANNA, daughter of John Gardner. I --1 JOHN SOOTT =DOROTHY, daughter of Adam Waring, of Woodcotc,

_I- I JONATHAN SCOTT= MARY, daughter of Humphrey Sandford, of the Isle of Rossall.

'--­I Major JOHN SOOTT WARING= ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander Blackrie. ~I~ I ANNA MARIA SCOTT= JOHN READE, of Ipsden.

By Anna Maria Scott John Reade had seven sons and four daughters :- (I) JORN THURLOW* so named from the Lord Chancellor, one of Mrs. Reade's numerous friends. Born 22nd June, 1797; baptized 18th July, at Ipsden; educated at Rugby; took high honours at Haileybury (1814-16); served under Edward Scott-Waring at Banda; magistrate of Azimghur ; rose to be Commissioner of Saharunpore, where, after a distinguished career, he died 26th November, 1827. [ Vide, Memoir of Charles Reade, D.C.L., by C.L., and Compton Reade.]

(2) GEORGE EDWARD. Born 25th August, 1798; baptized at Ipsden 14th September; educated at Rugby and Haileybury (1814-15); obtained a writership in the H.E.I.C.S.; died at Calicut, Bombay, .et. 19, 8th December, 1816. *John Thurlow Reade and Holt Mackenzie were authors of the famous regulation known as No. 7 of 1822. This still remains the basis of the periodical revision of Land Revenue Settlements in the N.W.P. . A RECORD OF THE REDES.

(3) HENRY JONATHAN. Born 25th February, 1801; baptized 30th March at Ipsden; educated at the Charterhouse; Lieutenant 4th Bengal Light Cavalry; killed in action at Kolah* 17th October, 1821, ret. 20. (4) WILLIAM BARRINGTON, who succeeded his father. Of him presently. (S) EDWARD ANDERDON-so named after Mr. Anderdon, the partner of Cardinal Manning's father, a warm friend of Mr. John Reade. Born 15th March, 1807, and baptized 9th June at Ipsden; educated at the Prebendal School, Chichester; took honours at Haileybury, and went to India in the Civil Service ; member of the Suddur Board ; was acting lieutenant-governor of the N.W.P., and the last to enter the Fort at Agra during the 1857. Retired 1860 and resided at Ipsden House up to 1882; afterwards at Well Place until his decease, 12th February, 1886; he was magistrate and Deputy-lieutenant for Oxon and Berks, and Chairman of the Wallingford Bench; was created for his services Companion of the Bath (vide an admirable article in the Diet. Nat. Biography by ~is son Arthur). He married 7th April, 1838, at Mirzapore, Eliza, born 23rd July, and baptized 23rd December, 1817, at South :Perrot, daughter of Richard Nossiter Burnard, Esq., of Colyford, and by her, who died at Brighton, 21st November, 1857, and was buried at Old Hove Church, with others who died in infancy, had (1) BURNARD EDWARD, born at Gorukpur 19th May, 1839, baptized there nth December, the same year. Died from the effects of wounds inflicted by a leopard, he being then Captain on the retired list, at Gorukpur, 25th March, 1878. Unmarried. (2) LAWRENCE EDWARD, godson of Sir Henry Lawrence, brother of John, Lord Lawrence. Born at Gorukpur 8th November, 1846. Baptized there 10th December the same year. Educated at School. Admitted to the New Zealand bar. Married 15th March, 187 5, Margaret Hannah Booth, daughter of George Booth, Esq., of Bradford, at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, and has issue: EnwARD BoOTH, born 3rd November, 1877. ARTHUR BURNARD, born 7th January, 1879. CHARLES COMPTON, born 4th May, 1881. (3) ARTHUR EDWARD. Born at Benares 8th March, and baptized there 21st May, 1848. Educated at Tonbridge School. Served in the Telegraph department of the Indian Civil Service. Married at Brighton 24th April, 1878. His wife is Mary Wood, only child of E. S. Burnard, Esq., by Anne, daughter of J. Wood, Esq., of Martock House, Somerset, and widow of Captain A. W. Garnett, R.E. Born at Crewkerne, 8th January, 1840, and baptized there. Issue- WINIFRED MARY, born 25th January, and baptized 24th February, 1879. EDWARD BURNARD, born 15th April, and baptized 22nd June, 1880. ARTHUR GEORGE LAWRENCE, born 5th June, 1882. GLADYS Lucy, born 10th August, 1885, died 29th March, 1886, EVELYN MEREDITH, born 2nd Seprember, 1887, baptized 19th October at Paris. *The Major in command, together with Henry J. Reade, rode in advance of the troop. When within 50 yards of the enemy, an officer in the rear rank, Lieut. Mactier, suddenly gave the order to retire, with the result that the two officers at the front, deserted by their men, rode alone to meet inevitable death. Mactier's inberest with the Easb India Company being· strong, be escaped with a reprimand. Henry Jonathan Reade was the tallest of the family, standing over 6ft, lin. in bis shoes. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

(4) AMY EDWARD, born at Gorukpur 8th May, 1845, and baptized there 29th June, the same year. Married at Ipsden Church 19th May, 1868, Rev. Charles Stanley Tayler, M.A., Rector of Flowton, Suffolk, and afterwards Chaplain to the Almshouses, Goring Heath, Oxon. Son of Ralph J. Tayler, E.I.C.S. She died without surviving issue at Titsey, in Surrey, roth October, 1877.

(5) ELLINOR EDWARD. Born at Benares 12th September, 1850. Baptized there 8th November, the same year. Married at Ipsden Church 2nd July, 1872, Francis Edward Hedges, now of Brightwell, Berks, son of Charles Hedges, Esq., of Park, and has issue : CONSTANCE ELLINOR, born 3rd May, 1873. FRANCIS READE, born 30th July, 187 5; educated at Merchant Taylor's School, and was Stewart Exhibitioner at St John's College, Oxford, B.A., 1898. ALICE MARY, born 13th September, 1897. GERALD BURNARD, born 7th November, 1879, died 25th May, 1889. VIOLET and ETHEL MARGARET, born 1st February, 1881. CHARLES CUTHBERT and HAROLD EDWARD, born 5th May, 1882; educated at Worthing College. WINIFRED EvELYN, born 8th October, 1884. GERALDINE, born 9th March, 1890.

(6) Lucy EDWARD. Born at Agra 30th April, 1853. Baptized there 13th July. Married at Ipsden Church 19th March, 1884, Edward Rochfort Smith, son of Major Lionel Rochfort Smith, 64th Regiment.

(7) MARGARET EDWARD. Born at Agra 9th June, 1855, and baptized there 3rd August, 1855. Married at Ipsden Church 15th July, 1880, Kyrle Ernie Symons, of the Telegraph Department, Civil Service of India, nephew of Colonel Money-Kyrle, of Much Marcle, who died 26th April, 1884, having issue one son, Kyrle Charles Francis Sewallis, born at Saidpore, N. Bengal, 2nd June, 188r. Educated at Dulwich College.

The sixth son of John Reade of Ipsden, by Anna Maria Scott, was COMPTON, born 15th March, 18n. Baptized at Ipsden 8th June. Resided in his later years at Orsett Hall, Essex, of which he was joint tenant with Mr. Charles Reade, junior, and at Ditton Place, Sussex. Married 15th March, 1833, at Clapham, Jane, daughter of Ralph Walker,'!' Esq., of Newcastle, born 1st February, 18n, died at Orsett Hall 12th November, 1888, and was buried at Paddington Cemetery, Willesden. He died at Ditton Place 7th January, 1892, and was also buried at Paddington Cemetery, Willesden. By her he had issue, with others who died in infancy :

*Ralph Walker, who was a shipowner of Newcastle, married Jane, dau. of T. Richardson, of Newcas1Jle, son of John Richardson, Mayor of Durharu, 1754. That the mayoralty of the City of the Counby Palatine was then a post of high honour may be inferred from the following excerpt, furnished by (J, Rowlandson, Esq., Mayor 1898:- Mayors 1752 Sir Robert Eden. 1753 George Bowes, ancestor of Lord Str:.thmore. 1754 John Richardson. 1755 Earl of Darlington. 1757 Lord Barnard. 86 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

(i.) REV. COMPTON. Born at 9, Hunter Street, Bloomsbury, 30th April, r834. Baptized at Ipsden. Educated at King's College School, Rossall Hall, Crewkerne, and privately. Matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxon, November, r852. Nominated Choral Clerk of Magdalen College by President Routh, April, 1854. B.A. 1857, M.A. r859. Ordained deacon to the Curacy of Burford-cum-Fulbrook, Oxon, December, 1857, Fulbrook forming part of the estate of Sir John Chandos Reade. Priest December, 1858. Nominated Chaplain of Magdalen August, 1858, by President Bulley, which office he held up to Michaelmas, 1879; thus being 25 years on the foundation of Magdalen College. Nominated Chaplain of Christ Church by Dean Liddell January, 1862, which office he vacated by marriage 30th November, 1867. Presented by the Chapter of Christ Church to the Vicarage of Cassington, Oxon, March, r867. Resigned his incumbency January, r869. Curate subsequently of St. Patrick's Hove, Merton, Oxon, and St. John's, Isleworth. In August, 1883, presented by Mrs. Milner to the Rectory of Elton, Durham. Presented January, 1885, by Tankerville Chamberlayne, Esq., M.P., to the Vicarage of Timsbury, Hants, and to the Rectory of Eldon-held conjointly-by R. Hussey, Esq., in April of the same year. Presented by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Halsbury, February, r887, to the Rectory of Kenchester, Hereford, and in May of the same year to the Vicarage of Bridge Solers, or Sollars-the two benefices being held conjointly. Elected Chaplain of the County Asylum rst May, 1889. The Rev. Compton Reade is author of several works, including-with Mr. Charles Reade, junior-a memoir of his uncle, Charles Reade, D.C.L. He married at Willesden Church, 30th November, 1867, Emma, daughter of Henry Reade Scott-Waring, Esq. (by Mary Agar, his first wife). Born September 9th, r846, at Helmsley. A lady who has attained reputation as a novelist, especially by "Rose and Rue "-of which Charles Reade wrote: "You have added something to literature, and that something very pure and beautiful." By her he has : COMPTON, born at Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill, 31st May, r869. Baptized at All Saints', Notting Hill. Educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Lieutenant in the Herefordshire Militia 1888. Lieutenant 5th Dragoon Guards r89r. Retired 1894. ScoTT GEORGE COMPTON, born October 27th, 1870. Baptized at St. Clement's Church, Oxford. Educated at St. Paul's School. (ii.) GEORGE EDWARD, second son of Compton and Jane Reade, born 5th December, r839, at 19, Tavistock Square, W.C. Educated privately. Entered the Indian Army 1S59, on the nomination of Sir Frederick Pollock. Appointed aide-de-camp to the Hon. Edmund Drummond, Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W.P. Assistant Commissioner of Almora. Commissioner of Ranikhet, N.W.P. Retired with the rank of full Colonel r89 4. Died at II, Lansdowne Place, Brighton, r3th August, 1897. Buried at Brighton Cemetery. (iii.) JOHN THURLOW, third son of Compton and Jane Reade, born 5th August, 1842. Baptized at Ipsden. Died at Shepherd's Bush 5th February, 1876, unmarried. Buried at Paddington Cemetery, Willesden. (iv.) HERBERT CHARLES, born at 9, Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, r3th February, r844. Obtained a commission in the Navy on the nomination of the Hon. Sir James Drummond, then Sea-lord of the Admiralty, 1859. Died of fever at Malta 6th April, 1862. (v.) ANNA MARIA, eldest daughter of Compton and Jane Reade, born at Hargrave Cottage, Hampstead, 9th July, r835. Married at Agra, 8th November, 1854, the Hon. Robert Andrew John Drummond, fifth son of the eighth Viscount Strathallan by Lady Amelia S. Murray, daughter of John, 4th Duke of Athole-who was then magistrate of Agra. She was present with her husband in the fort of Agra during the mutiny, her eldest child being poisoned just prior to its outbreak. By him she had, with others, who died in infancy,

CHARLES READE, D.C.L., mt. 35. (1814-84). (From the original portrait by Miss \Villcocks, in the possession of Herbert V. Reade, of Ipsden, Esquire). A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Malcolm, born 22nd March, 1857; Rev. Henry Murray, B.D., born 1st March, 1858, now Vicar of Worminghall, Bucks, married Catherine, daughter of . Gwillym, Esq., formerly of Clifford, and has issue; Walter John, born 24th June, I86r; Robert Hugh, born 25th May, 1862; Herbert, born 4th May, 1864; Arthur David, born 13th October, 1865 ;. Rev. Ernest, B.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge, Curate of Walthamstow; Anna Euphemia, born 1860, and baptized at St. Saviour's, Chelsea. The Hon. Mrs. R. A. J. Drummond died 22nd April, 1871, at Kilburn Park, N.W., and was buried at Paddington Cemetery, Willesden. Her husband died 29th June, 1887, and was buried by her side. (vi.) FLORENCE ELLINOR, born 22nd March, 1846, at 9, Cleveland Street, Birkenhead, died 22nd May, 1870, at Paris, and was buried at Pere La Chaise Cemetery. (vii.) CECIL JANE, born at 49, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, IIth March, 1847, (viii.) EMILIA SOPHIA, born at Attleborough, , 1st February, 1850. Married at Southborough, Kent, 28th June, 1898, to Charles Reade, junior, Esq. CHARLES,- youngest child of John and Anna Maria Reade of Ipsden. Born at Ipsden, 8th June, 1814. Educated privately. Entered at Magdalen College, Oxford, as Demy, 22nd July, 1831. B.A., 3rd Class in Lit. Hum., 1835. Probationer Fellow, 22nd July, 1835. Fellow, 22nd July 1836. Proceeded M.A., B.C.L., and D.C.L. Was successively Vinerian scholar and fellow. Vice-President of Magdalen, 1851. Vacated his fellowship by death on Good Friday, 11th April, 1884. Buried in Willesden Churchyard, M.I. A medallion profile by Curtice was erected by public subscription in St. Paul's Cathedral, and unveiled in February, 1887, by Lord Glenesk. For his academical, social, and literary career refer to" Charles Reade, a memoir in 2 vols., 1887, by C. L. and Rev. Compt,on Reade"-a work which Mr. Kent in the Dictionary of National Biography stigmatises as most inefficient. It may be so, but at all events he has derived nine-tenths of the facts in his article from that source. To these he has appended several fictions of his own, besides traducing the author of "The Cloister and the Hearth " in terms bordering on scurrility. To charge a writer of the rank of Charles Reade with ''gros~ exaggeration" and '' jejune characterisation," &c., &c., is to ignore the verdict of such contemporaries as Messrs. Swinburne and Besant, and to usurp the final judgment of the future, It is not true, as Mr. Kent affirms, that Father Faber was the nephew of Mrs. Reade. He was nephew of Mrs. Reade's brother-in-law. It is not true that Charles Reade's manner was boisterous. He was the most reserved of men. It is not true that he made his literary mentor's acquaintance during the rehearsal of "Masks and Faces." He knew her before his collaboration with Tom Taylor. It is not true that Mr, John Henderson, fellow of Magdalen, supplied hints for "It is never too late to mend." That gentleman left England for Australia early in 1851, before either the play "Gold " or the novel was so much as sketched. He returned from Australia just eight years after the publication of the novel. In 1851 he knew no more of the gold diggings than Charles Reade. It is not true that Charles Reade resided in Leicester Square in the fifties. He had lodgings near there from 1842 to 1845, after which, until 1851, he lived mostly in Paris. In 1854 he was lodging over Chapman and Hall's, in Piccadilly, and in the same ye11r moved to Bolton Row. SOPHIA BROOKE READE, the eldest daughter of John and Anna Maria Reade, was born at Ipsden 22nd November, and baptized 17th December, 1799. She died 25th June, 1856. Buried at Alton, Hants. She married at Ipsden 26th July, 1820, Rev. Thomas Woodrooffe, B.D., sometime fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and subsequently Canon Residentiary of Winchester, who was born in 1790, and died 14th May, 1878. By him she had­ (1) GEORGE T., born 28th September, 1823. Married 25th March, 1854, Mrs. H. E. Burgess. (2) JOHN ALLEN, born 21st December, 1826, died 4th July, 1868. Married 10th March, 1856, Emma Richardson, and had issue-(3) WILLIAM ERSKINE, Captain Cape Rifles, born 17th May, 1832. Married 26th April, 1855, Amelia Maria Pyle, and had issue-(4) Rev. HENRY R., born 27th April, 1833. B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1856; Canon of Grahams­ town. Married MARION E. OAK, and has issue-(s) ARTHUR G,, born 7th February, 1840. (6) EDMUND A., born 12th April, 1842. (7) CHARLES, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, born 15th June, 1845. Married Ellen G. Nutt, 29th July, 1885. (8) SOPHIA, bcrn 11th'"Novem­ ber 18:q, died nth May, 1844; author of a volume of poems, edited posthumously by Rev. G. S. Faber, B.D. (9) MARY ANNE, born 25th April, 1825. Married 28th October, 88 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

1847, General William Raikes Faber, M.A., University College, Oxon, who died 24th June, 1879, and has issue REGINALD STANLEY. (10) SELINA MARY, born 18th May, 1836. Canon Woodrooffe's father was Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Rector of Ockley, Surrey. JuLIA SUSANNA READE, the second daughter, born 16th June, and baptized 22nd July, 1804, at Ipsden, was a lady of great beauty and talent. She married at Ipsden Church 1st July, 1823, Lieut. afterwards (1826), Commander, Allen Francis Gardiner, R.N., son of Samuel Gardiner, of Coombe Lodge, Whitchurch, Oxon, whose daughter married Mr. Hunt, of Buckhurst, a descendant of the Hunts, of Mollington, whence the Lords Robartes. Captain Allen Ga~iner left the navy to embrace the cause, and his wife accompanied him to Zululand (vide Gardiner's Zululand), and there contracted the seeds of disease which shortened her life. By him she had, with others who died in infancy, Rev. Allen Weare Gardiner, M.A., Demy of Magdalen, on the nomination of Charles Rea.de, in 1851. First Class in Law and History 1855. He married in August 1858, at Horsley Church, Glou<;estershire, Ro~e El~za, second daughter of Rev. Samu

*The second wife of Richard Lloyd was Tryphena, dau. of (one of Cromwell's Lords), her mother having been the celebrated Alice, Lady Lisle who, by the sentence of Judge Jeffreys, was executed at Winchester in 1685. Their daughter, Eliza1,eth, married Lord James Russell, fifth son of ,villiam, first Duke of Bedford, Their daughter, Tryphena Russell, married Thomas Scawen, M.P. ; and their daughter (another Tryphena), married Henry, second Earl Bathurst-the Lord Chancellor. +Uncle of the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, Ohancellorof the Exchequer, and First Lord of the Admiralty in Mr, Disraeli's Administrations ; and of Professor , historian of the Civil War. A RECORD OF THE REDE.S.

30th January, 1803, and baptized 24th February of the same year, his god-father being Bishop Barrington. He served as in the Indian navy, and made three voyages, being shipwrecked on the coast of Spain. Subsequently he obtained a commission in the 1st Bengal Light Cavalry, wherein although left-handed he gained a prize for swordsman­ ship offered by Lord Combermere when Commander-in-Chief. Retired 1832. He married at Benares, 1826, Elizabeth, daughter of John Griffin, Esq., who died at Tenby, 1836, in giving birth to an infant which did not survive. He married secondly, at Ryde, 12th April, 1837, Elizabeth,* daughter of Captain Murray, R.N., who was born 13th October, 1810, and died rnth September, 1895. He died in 1881, and was buried at Ipsden. He had issue: WILLIAM WrnwooD, born uth December, 1838, died at Wimbledon, 24th April, 1875. This gentleman was educated privately, and in 1856 entered as Commoner of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, leaving without a degree in the summer following. He obtained some reputation as an African explorer, and accompanied Lord W olseley's expedition to Ash an tee, fighting as a volunteer and acting as correspondent of the Times. See his "Story of the Ashantee Campaign," 187 4. He was the author of several other works, the best known being "The Martyrdom of Man" and '' Savage ." The climate of that country caused his early death. t He was buried 29th April, at Ipsden. M.I. The second son of William B. Reade, Rev. H. ST. JOHN READE, succeeded him at Ipsden. Of him presently, The third son, GEORGE, born 24th February, 184 r, at Reading, went out as Catechist to Australia with his cousm, Rev. A. W. Gardiner, M.A., and died February, 1888. The fourth son, CHARLES EDWARD, born 1st April, 1842, entered the navy as mid­ shipman on the nomination of Lord Northbrook, and was present at the skirmish with the South Sea islanders, when Commodore Goodenough lost his life. He retired with the rank of Captain. The fifth son, MALCOLM, born 24th April, 1845, obtained in 1865, an appointment in the Bengal Civil Service by competition, and was assassinated by his servant 6th February, 1875, at Futtegurh, N.W.P. The sixth son, FREDERICK MURRAY, born 1st October, 1848, at Henley-on-Thames, married at Toronto Cathedral, 18th July, 1882, Marianne Cecilia, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel George Colman (grandson of George Colman, the dramatist). Issue: EDITH MADELEJNE, born at Kensmgton, 20th August, 1884, baptized at St. Barnabas, Kensington. MURRAY COLMAN, born 5th May, 1886, at J\Ionroe, Oregon, U.S.A., baptized privately. Of Mr. W. B. Reade's daughters, MARY LOUISA was born 3rd September, 1843, at Cadbury Cottage, Yatton, Somerset. This lady Joined the Roman Communion, and was attached for some years to the teaching staff of the Pro.-Cathedral, Kensington. She inherited from her mother's cousin, Miss Myra Steele, a property called Meerhaye, at Beaminster, Dorset, and died at Brighton 1st June, 1887. The next sister, EMILY SOPHIA, born at Birkenhead 12th September, 1846, married 1872, Rev. W. B. Bussell, a *Captain John Murray, R.N., of Ardbennie, Perth, son of William of Ardbennie (died 1755), was a descendant of Patrick Murray, of Ochtertyre, who was living in the 16th century. Ardbennie was divided into three portions, held by different branches of the same stock. The Murrays of Dollerie were near relatives, Captain John Murray, R.N., married Caroline, daughter of Rev. Dr. Steele, of Alresford, and sister of Sir Robert 8teele, K.C.S .. whose daughter Myra bequeathed her lands in Beaminster to Mary Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. W. B. Reade. A brother of Sir Robert-Henry Perin-married Margaret, daughter of Captain Stonhouse, and by her had Margaret, who, marrying R. G. Watson, Esq., of Ballydarton, had issue, with others, Elizabeth Myra, Baroness Max De Tuyll. . . ARMS m' STEELE.-On a tield or a cross patoncee gules. Crest,-An arm proper brandishing a smm1tar. Motto.-Te Duce. tFor a fuller account of his life see Diet. Nat. Biog. 12 90 A RECORD OF THE REDES. retired Chaplain R.N., who died 3rd Septembe1, 1874. The third sister, FRANCES ELIZABETH, born 26th August, 1850, has achieved considerable success as a writer for the Christian Knowledge Society. The REv. HENRY ST. JoHN READE, who, as eldest surviving son, inherited the estate of Ipsden on the decease of his father, was born at Streatley, Berks, 4th January, 1840, and educated at Tonbridge School, of which he was Exhibitioner. He obtained a Scholarship at University College, Oxford, in 1858; first class in moderations, and second in Lit. Hurn., graduating B.A. in 1862, and M.A. in 1865. He was Captain of the Oxford Eleven, and took Holy Orders as Master at Haileybury College. He married 18th December, 1868, Frances Anne, daughter and sole heir of Rev. W. Vincent, vicar of Chipperfield, Herts, a grandson of the Very Rev. Dr. Vincent, Dean of Westminster. The Vincent pedigree, as published by Mr. Reginald Stewart Boddington, in Misc. Geneal. et Herald II., 239, begins with Thomas Vincent of Swinford, Leicester, who married Joane, daughter and heiress of Sir John Barnack, Knt. His grandson, .Richard Vmcent, Lord of the Manors of Barnack, Northants, and Swinford, Leicester, was killed in 1434. From his eldest son John descend the Vincents, Baronets. The ninth in direct descent from his youngest son, Richard, was William Vincent, born 1739. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; D.D. 17.76; headmaster of Westminster School, 1788; Dean of West­ midster 1802 until his death in 1816. Author of" History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean," and other works. Married in 1771 Hannah Wyatt (a descendant of Sir Thomas Wyatt), and his eldest son was the Rev. William St. Andrew Vincent, whose eldest son, by Frances Elizabeth Gayfere, was the Rev. William Vincent. He married, on the 16th October, 1838, at Plumstead, Ann, youngest daughter of Colonel William Stace of Woolwich Arsenal, J.P. and D.L. for Kent, and their only daughter, Frances Ann, married the Rev. H. St. J. Reade. ARMS OF VINOENT,-Azure, three quatrefoils argent. Crest.-A demi-ram. Motto.--Virtute, non viribus vincent. He became in 1869 Head Master of Beccles School, and thence (1873) was elected Head Master of the Godolphin School, Hammersmith. Finally, in 1876, he accepted the Headship of the Grammar School at Oundle, in the gift of the Grocer's Company, and had already trebled the number of pupils, when, by the death of his father, he became squire, and removed to Ipsden. Died 18th February, 1884, buried at Ealing. Issue: HERBERT VINCENT READE, who succeeded him as Squire of Ipsden. Born at

Haileybury 30th April, 18701 baptized at Chipperfield. Educated at Haileybury College. Scholar of C.C.C., Oxford, 1889. Second Class moderations, 1891. Second Lit. Hurn., 1893. B.A., 1893. He married 27th June, 1896, Hannah Georgina, second daughter of Rev. Edmund Thomas Butler, a collateral of the Butlers of Warrninghurst, Sussex, and is now a First Class Clerk in the Secretary's Office of H.M. Customs, London, and Private Secretary to the Chairman of the Board. WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT READE, born 13th January, 1872, at Beccles; baptized 8th April at Chipperfield. Educated at Oundle School. Exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford, 189r. First Class moderations, 1893. First Class Lit. Hum., 1895. B.A., 1895. Tutor of Keble College, 1897. FRANCIS VINCENT, born at Hammersmith 25th March, 1874. Educated privately and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. B.A. 1897. Now student at Ely Theological College. MARY VINCENT, born 5th June, 1876, at Oundle. Mrs. Henry St. John Reade married as her second husband Charles Edward Dyer, Esq., Barrister-at-law, son of Charles Robinson Dyer, of St. John's Wood, at Christ Church, Hampstead, on the 29th December, 1890. The subjoined quadruple Royal descent has been supplied by H. F. J. Vaughan, of Humphreston, Esq., whose wife, daughter of the late Nasmyth Scott Stokes, Esq., Inspector of Schools, is great-grand-daughter of Jonathr.n Scott (vide infra.) . A RECORD OF THE REDES. 91

HENRY llI,"j=ELEANOR, dau, and co,-heiress of Raymond Berenger. I I I ELEANOR =pEDWARD J.T2 MARGARET, d. of Philip IIJ. of France. EDMUND d. of Ferdinand \ ,BLANCHED' ARTOIS, IIJ. King of Queen Dowager of Castile. I Navarre. I I ELIZABETH JOAN OF ACRE THOMAS PLANTAGENET, HENRY PLANTAGENET, HUMPHREV DE BoHUN, -TGILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Norfolk Earl of Lancaster Earl of Hereford. Earl of Gloucester. =r=ALICE, d. of Sir Roger Halys =pMAUD, d. & h. of Sir T / of Harwich. I Patrick Chaworth. Lady ELEANOR DE Lady ELIZABETH DE {MARGARET, Duchess of Norfolk}Lady JOAN PLAN- BOHUN CLARE TAGENET -JAMES, EarlofOrmon:le. T, Sir ROGER DAMORY, -TJom,, 3rd Lord Segrave. ,JOHN, 3rd Lord T l Mowbray, JAMES, 2nd Earl of {ELIZABETH DAMORY } Lady ELIZABETH SEGRAVE, =pJOHN, 4th Lord Mowbray Ormonde heir. \ of Oxholm, Earl of ,ELIZABETH, d.ofSir John =r=J OHN, 3rd Lord · Nottingham, Earl Mar- Darcy, Justice of Ireland. I Bardo If. I shall, &c. l MARGARET BABDOLPH 1;:;~;:;~;~:,. I I J~HN, 5th Lord Welles=j=MARGARET MOWBRAY. JAMES, 3rd Earl of Ormonde,ANNE WELLES. I JAMES, 4th Earl,JoAN, d. of Gerald, 5th Earl of Kildare. I Lady ELIZABETH BUTLER T]OHN TALBOT, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury.

Lady ANNE TALBOT=f=Sir HENRY VERNON of Tong Castle, Salo~, and Haddon I Hall, Derby. ELIZABETH VERNON TSir ROBERT CORBET of Moreton Corbet, Salop, AGNES CORBET 1 THOMAS NEWPORT of High ErcoJI, Salop. I Sir RICHARD NEWPORT TMARGARET, d. and heir of Lord Chief Justice Sir .

MAGDALEN NEWPORT =r=Sir RICHARD HERBERT of Llys Manor, Montgomery. I Sir HENRY HERBERT of Ribbesford, 6th son, Master of the Revels to James J. and Charles J ., brother of the celebrated Lord Herbert of Cher bury, and of George Herbert, the poet. =r=ELIZABETH, d, of Sir Robert Offley of Dalby. i MARY HERBERT =r=RrcHARD WALKER of Wootton, Onibury, co, Sa!op. I JOB w .ALKER of Ferney Hall. =r=REBECCA, d. of Lord Folliott. I REBECCA WALKER ,HUMPHRY SANDFORD of the Isle. I MARY SANDFORD ,JONATHAN SCOTT, I Major JOHN SCOTT-WARING =r=ELIZABETH BLAOK:RIE. I ANNA MARIA SCOTT . JOHN READE of lpsden, CHAPTER VIII. THE BROCKET LINE.

(1) SUSANNE, dau. of Sir T, Style.,SIR JOHN READE, 1st Bart.=(2) ALISSlMON, widow of (d. 1657). I (1617-94). Hon. F. Pierpont. I I I I . I JOHN. THOMAS. STEPHEN, Sir JAMES, 2nd Bart.,LovE, dau. of Alderman Drrng PETER, s.p. s.p. s.p. (1655-1701). (1655-173I)_.l____ c_1_6s_1~--s_1._ I ·.- s.p.

ELIZABETH. I s.p. MARY=Sir J. BUCKNALL. (1656-1709). s.p.

ANNE. (d. 1654). s.p.

SUSANNA, (d. 1680). s.p. I I Sir JOHN, DOR0THEA, 1 ROBERT MARY, ANNE=RoBERT LovE,Right Hon. T. SUSANNA. 3rd Bart. (m. 1712). IDASHW0OD. (d. 1754). (1695- MYDDLETON. (1696 IW1NNINGTON, (1700- (1691-1712). (d. 1728). s.p. 1753). (d. 1733). -1730). (1696-1746). 1717). s.p. s.p. Sir JAMES DASHW00D, Bart. FRANCES READE WINNINGTON, (issue). (1720).

THE eldest son of Sir John Reade and Susanne, daughter of Sir Thomas Style, Bart., of , was JOHN READE, Esq., mentioned in the Will of his maternal grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Style, 1648; must have died without issue ·male surviving his father, since his brother James succeeded to the title of Baronet. Also mentioned in an Indenture dated 9th January, 1663, as son and heir of Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall. It will be noted that Sir John Reade was succeeded in the Baronetcy and Estates by his fourth son, who then became Sir James Reade. At the same time a mystery has always en­ shrouded the three elder sons. On the decease of Sir James, his widow and daughters being impoverished petitioned in 1702 the Lord High Treasurer of England, thus : "they pray for tender consideration for that they are needyless in the premises by the strict rules of common law, the rather for that your orators and oratrixes' (sic) witnesses, wh0 can prove the truth of all and singular the premises, are either dead or in parts remote and beyond the seas unknown to your orators and oratrixes.'"'' Without endorsing the diatribes of his second *The above is an extract from MSS. in the Kirtlington achives, entituled "Sir John Bucknall's Entryes of the Proceedings in the Exchequer, and other matters in relacion to the Estate of Sir James and Sir John Reade, deceased." These include the inventories of Brocket Hall and Dunstew Manor. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 93 wife (see page 33) it may be admitted that in character Sir John was somewhat peculiar He turned against the King after accepting a Baronetcy from his hands. He sat in judgment on his own father. He was the first to be accorded an hereditary distinction by Cromwell. It seems not inconceivable that he should have quarrelled with his elder sons, his second wifo possibly furnishing a cause. That there should exist no record of the decease of these three young gentlemen is in itself a suspicious circumstance, and suggests that one or other of them may have been one of the witnesses either dead or beyond the seas.

The second son of Sir John Reade by Susanne Style was THOMAS READE, mentioned in the Will of his maternal grandmother Dame Elizabeth Style, 1648; must have died without issue male surviving his father, since his brother James succeeded to the title of Baronet of Brocket with the Estates in Herts, Oxon, and Middlesex.

The third son of Sir John Reade by Susanne Style was STEPHEN READE, mentioned in the Will of his grandmother Mary, widow of Sir Thomas Reade, Knt., as under age 27th May, 1651, and as then youngest son.

The fourth son of Sir John Reade, his heir and successor, was SIR JAMES READE, of whom presently. i. The fifth son of Sir John Reade and Susanne Style was PETER READE, baptized 3rd April, 1657, at Hatfield; matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, 14th May, 1675 ( Foster's Alum. Oxon erroneously states that he was then 16 years of age); buried at Hatfield 4th July, 1681, aged 24 years. Of the daughters of Sir John Reade and Susanne Style, ELIZABETH was named in the will of her grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Style, 1648.

MARY, the second daughter of Sir John Reade, Bart., of Brocket Hall, became second wife of Sir John Bucknall, Knt., of Oxhey, near Watford, Herts. She was baptized at Hatfield 31st March, 1656; marriage license at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London, dated 24th September, 1694; licensed to marry Sir John Bucknall at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex. In her marriage license she is erroneously stated to be 30 years of age, consequently making the year of her birth 1664, seven years after the death of her mother, who died 1657. It is probably a sister of this Mary, also named Mary, who must have died in infancy, that is mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Mary, Lady Reade, dated 27th May, 1651. Mary, Lady Bucknall, who had a dower of £13,500, died s.p. Admon. of her effects granted to her husband, 10th March, 1709. Sir John Bucknall, Knt., of Oxhey, near Watford, Herts, merchant of London, High Sheriff of Herts, 1692, and M.P. for Middlesex 1697, eldest son of Sir William Bucknall, Knt., the purchaser of Oxhey, one of the Farmers of the Excise and an Alderman of London, was born r645,* and knighted at Whitehall, 23rd February, 1685-6. He administered to his second wife's effects 10th March, 1709. *In the pedigree of Bucknall, recorded in the College of Arms (6 D 14, p, 336), Sir John is said to have died in 1711, aged about 66. According to this statement, therefore, he was born in 1645. Another authority says he wa.s born in 1660. 94 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Sir John married firstly,-.\' at Oxhey, 31st January, 1686, Mary, daughter of Richard Graham, Esq, of the City of Westminster, by whom (who was born in 1666, and died antt 1694), he had issue; and secondly, in 1694, Mary, daughter of Sir John Reade, Knt. and first Bart., of Brocket Hall, but by her had no issue. He died in 17 1 r, aged about 66, and was buried at Oxhey. By hia first wife Sir John Bucknall had a son William, who married Mary, daughter of Michael Askell, of Gaydon, Warwick. Their daughter Mary, who inherited Oxhey, married James, second Viscount Grimston (whose grandson in 1815 was ereated Earl of Verulam), and her elder daughter married Thomas Estcourt, of Estcourt, Gloucester, whose son was Thomas Grimston Bucknall-Estcourt, M.P.

ARMS OF BuaKNALL.-Arg., two chevronels gu. between three bucks' heads cabossed sa. attired or.

The third daughter of Sir John Reade, ANNE, was buried 14th June, 1664, at Hatfield.

The fourth daughter of Sir John Reade was SUSANNA. Buried 15th January, 1680, at Hatfield, Herts. Mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Mary, Lady Reade, 27th May, 165r. Susanna Reade of Dunstew, Oxon, spinster, patroness of the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Dunstew, Oxon, is mentioned in a document dated 15th February, 1675, which is signed by herself, with Maria Reade and Elizabeth Brokett ( Kirtlington:Archives ).

SIR JAMES READE, 2nd Bart. of Brocket Hall, Hatfield, and of Minsden, Herts. Eldest surviving son and heir of Sir John Reade, 1st Bart. Born and baptized at Hatfield 10th March, 1654-5, matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, 14th May, 1675 ( Fosters Alum. Oxon erroneously says he was then aged 17 ). On the monument erected to his memory in the Reade and Brocket Chapel in Hatfield Church, Sir James is said to have died in 1702, being then in the 52nd year of his age. According to this statement he was therefore born in 1651. His marriage license, at the Vicar-General's Office, dated 24th January, 1689-90, further states that he was 30 years of age at that date, making the date of his birth r 660. The latter statement is proved to be inaccurate from the fact that his mother died in 1657, and both statements are proved to be wrong by the entry, in the Hatfield registers, of the date cf his death and burial. He is described as son and heir apparent in a release between Francis Morris and Sir John Reade, Bart,, dated 17th November, 1687. Administered to his father's effects 26th February, 1694. Mentioned in a Latin document of 1694, as Lord of the Manor of Mynsdenbury cum Langley. ( Minsden Court Rolls, Kz"rtlington Archives.) In a roll of the names of proprietors in the Bank of England, 13th March, 1698, Sir James Reade stands in the list of those who, by their stock, are capable of being chosen Governor, Deputy Governor, or Director. He served as High Sheriff for Herts, 1693, and for Oxon, 1700. In D,IVenport's High Sheriffs he is erroneously described as of Shipton Court, instead of Dunstew. Sir James Reade was possessed of property at Ayott Mountfitchet, which he inherited from his father. Chauncey's Antz'quz"tz'es, p. 321b., contains the following:-

" Eye, aiet Monfitchet, aiet St. Peters, or Little Aiet. This Vill in the time of Henry IL belonged to Richard Montfitchet, from whom it descended to his son Richard, who, dying without issue, his la.nds were divided among his three sisters, but in a short time after Montfitchet came to William de Ayete. Afterwards Nicholas Corbet obtained it, from whom it came into the possession of John Poteyn ; and upon his decease it decended to *Sir John Bucknall's first marriage is thus given in the pedigree of Bucknall recorded in the College of Arms (6 D 14, p. 336); another authority, giving the date and place of marriage as above, says his first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Graham, Esq., of St. Peter-le-Poer, London. A RECORD OF THE RED.ES. 95

"John, who was his heir, but since his time it has been dismembered and divided among several persons, whereof some part was conveyed to Brocket, from whom it passed to Sir Thomas Reade by the marriage of Mary, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir John Brocket ; from whom it descended to Sir John Reade who left issue, Sir James Reade, Baronet, the present possessor hereof. "Another parcel of this land was sold to Thomas Perient, Esq., who left it to Thomas Perient, his son (&c., &c.)." From the same authority, p. 324b., the following is also extracted : " Eye or aiot, St. Lawrence or Great Aiot...... King Henry I. granted (this manor) to one Radhere (who founded the Priory of St. Bartholomew, London), and by the dissolution of this Priory (r538, 30 Henry VIII.) this manor came to the Crown. King Henry VIII. by Grant dated the 20th July, anno 35, Regni sui, granted it, and the advowson of this Church, to John Brocket, John Alway, and Nicholas Bristow in Fee,,which last lived to a great age; from him it came to Nicholas his son (&c.)." There exists among the Kz'rtlington Archives an inventory of all the Brocket Hall household goods of Sir James Reade, Bart., taken at Brocket Hall, Herts, 4th December, 1701, and also an inventory of the goods of the same in the Manor House at Dunstew, taken 9th December, 17or. Sir James Reade died of a fever on the 16th, and was buried 21st October, 1701, in the Reade and Brocket Chapel at Hatfield, aged 46 years, 7 months and r I days. Admon. of his effects granted to his widow and relict, Dame Love Reade, 10th December, r 701. The ancient Brocket Hall erected in the reign of Henry V. and demolished circa r 760, by Sir Mathew Lamb, contained among other , whereof Sir George Egerton Dash wood possesses a complete catalogue,* a large amount of tapestry, silk and leather carpets, plate, jewels, and pictures, together with a list of his assets which included, besides bank stock and lottery tickets, large sums lying at the Goldsmiths, and monies owed him by friends and relatives. Among others is noticeable a debt owed by Sir Robert Vyner, his cousin through the Style family, which is marked desperate. His wife's dowry £10,000 was invested in house property, chiefly in Whitefriars and the Strand. Having regard to the depreciated value of money since 1701, he may be termed an opulent gentleman.

LOVE, of St. Clements, London, daughter and co-heir of Robert Dring, t of Isleworth, Middlesex. Born 1655. Wife of Sir James Reade, of Brocket Hall; died 9th November, 1731, aged 76 years. Buried 18th November following in the Reade Chapel at Hatfield. Living at Brocket Hall I719. Will dated 23rd July, 1729, under which she leaves to her niece (should be daughter), Mrs. Mary Reade, Spinster, of the parish of St. J ames's,

*See" Appointment of Manor Houses in the 17th Century," Gentleman's llfagazine, June, 1898. tAlderman Robert Dring, of Isleworth, Middlesex, Freeman and Citizen of .London, son of Simon Dring, ?f Marlborough, Wilts, was apprenticed to Simon Dring, Junior, of Bread Street, in the parish of All Saints, m the Vv ard of Basishaw, linen merchant, on the 8th May, 1639, was a merchant-tailor. Died intestate about June, 1697. Dorothy, wife of above, mentioned in an indenture bearing date 14th August, 1677. A~M~ OF DRING.-Argent, a lion passant gules surmounted by a pale azure. Crest.-On a chapeau a phoemx m flames all proper. (Burke's General Armory.) Ju 1690 there was existent a firm of J?nblishers styled Bassett and Dring, Fleet Street, 96 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Westminster, £500 to be distributed in charity. Proved 26th November, I 73 T. Administered to her husband's effects 10th December, 1701, also to her only son's, 24th March, 1712, and to the effects of her daughter, Susanna, 5th July, 17 I 8.

In her will she is described as " Dame Love Reade, of Brockett Hall, Herts, and now of Marlborough Street, Westminster, Middlesex, Widow." She signs her will Love Reade.

Mentioned in the Will of her sister Anne, ,r, Lady Kingsale and Ringrone, 21st September, 1720.

A cause was heard before the Lord Chancellor 16th December, 1 7I 3, between Mary Reade, Anna Reade, Love Reade, and Susan Reade, infants, by their best friend, Sir William Banister, and Love, Lady Reade, Widow and Relict and Administratrix of Sir James Reade, Bart., deceased, and guardian of Sir John Reade, Bart., his son ; William Bucknall, Esq., Executor of Sir John Bucknall, who died July, 1712, Thomas Edwards, Robert Dashwood, Esq., and Dorothy his wife, defendants, about the division of Sir James Reade's Estate, he being at the time of his death seized of a yearly estate of the value of£ 2,500 and upwards, and possessed of a great personal estate, and dying intestate. Letters of Adminis­ tration of his goods and chattels were granted to the Defendant, Dame Love Reade, who by virtue thereof possessed herself of the same, and by virtue of the Statutes for settling intestates Estates, two parts of his estate became vested in Sir John, the Plaintiffs' only brother, the Plaintiffs, and the Defendant Dorothy Dashwood, the sister, being all the children Sir James left. Marriage License at the Vicar-General's Office, dated 24th January, 1689-90, to marry at Mercer's Chapel, London. Marriage settlement dated 16th January, 1689-90. Lady Reade's administration de bonis non to her father r 5th February, r 7 2 4. Lease of the house in Soho Square, Parish of St. Ann's, Westminster, Middlesex, for 35 years from the year 1734, by the Right Hon. Henry, Earl of Portland, Viscount Cirencester, aud Baron of Woodstock, to Dame Love Reade, of Soho Square aforesaid, widow, dated 15th July, 1715. * Anne, sister of Love Lady Reade, of Brocket, and wife of Lord Kingsale, was married at St. Martin's, Ludgate, London, 2nd March, 1698. Unmarried 31st December, 1697, as appears from a tripartite indenture, betLrmg that date. Mentioned as eldest daughter in an indenture dated 14th August, 1677, also mentioned in an indenture dated 19th December, 1673. Will dated 21st September, 1720, and proved 5th February, 1724-5 (Kfrt/inyton Archives), in which she bequeathes to her niece, heir and goddaughter, Mrs. Mary Reade, daughter of Sir James Reade, her house in Isleworth, Middlesex, and appoints her sole Executrix, and desires to he buried with her husband. She appoints Mr. Thomas Edwards, of the city of Bristol, her Trustee, and she mentions Anne Jordan, daughter of Henry Jordan, by his wife Dorothea Dring, her cousin. Appointed sole Executrix to the will of her husband, dated 20th October, 1699, proved 21st July, 1720. She dted at Isleworth 25th April, 1724, and was buried with her husband in 5th May following. Will dated 21st September, 1720, proved 6 (5) February, 1724-5. (WestAbb. Reg., p. 310.) Her husband was Almerious (De Courcy), 22nd or 23rd Baron of Kingsale and Ringrone, Cork, Ireland, which title is generally considered to have been first obtained by Miles de Courcy, that personage having received from King Henry III. 29th May, 1223, the grant of the territorial baronies of Kingsaleand Ringrone, Cork. Almericus, Baron Kingsale, who was about five years old in 1669, matriculated at Oxford. He had lL pension of £300 a year from Charles II., continued by James II .• for whom, in 1690, he commanded a troop of horse, and was afterwards Lieutenant Colonel in Sarsfield's Horse For this he was outlttwed in lG!ll, which sentence, however, was re\'ersed, 9,nd he sat in the .l:'ltrliarnent of Ireland 25th October, 1692, and again 20th l\fay, 1712. He died s.p. before his wife 9th Fehrnary, 17l!Vi0, and was buried in Westminster Abbey 14th February following. Will, in which he styles himself "A]mtLrick de Courcy, Baron of Kinsale and Rinrone," dated 20th October, 169(), with three corlicils. dated respectively 22nd December, 1703, 3rd June, 1713, and 16th October, 1713, was proved 21st July, 1720, He mentions his sister, Lady Magrath, and her husband, Sir John Magrath, his kinswoman, Mrs. Mary de Courcy, and Mr. John de Courcy, and his aunt, '.\lrs. Elizabeth de Courcy, For the alleged "De Courcy Privilege" of remaining covered in the presence of Royalty, see "Eighth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical MSS." (1881), second appendix, p. 115; and Archdall's edition of Lod~e's "Peerage of Ireland" (1789), Vol. VI., p. 156, &c. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 97

By Love, daughter of Alderman Dring, Sir James Reade had one son and five daughters. Sm JOHN READE, only son. Third and last Baronet of Brocket Hall and of Minsden. Born 1691, educated at Eton, matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, 7th November, 1705, aged 14; died, unmarried, of the small pox, 22nd February, 17II-r2, aged

21 years, at Rome, when the Baronetcy became extinct. Buried IIth June, 1712 1 at Hatfield, when Brocket Hall and Dunstew passed to his sisters. Admon. of bis effects granted to his mother 24th March, 1712. He was converted to Jacobite principles by his maternal uncle, Lord Kingsale, and had accepted a post in the suite of the Pretender,

In 1810, a person, styling himself "The Rev. Sir William Reade, Bart., Rector and Prebendary of Tomgrany, in the County of Clare," appeared at the College of Arms, London, in order to establish his claim to the honour of Baronet, which, it was understood, he had then lately assumed, as great-great-grandson and heir male of the body of Sir John Reade, the first Baronet of Brocket Hall, viz., as great-grandson of "Sir" Matthew Reade, of Killeavy, Clare, "Baronet," whom he reported to be a brother of Sir James Reade, second Baronet of Brocket Hall ; and on investigations being instituted by the College of Arms as to the authenticity of the proofs produced, these were found to be fictitious, and the claim* was therefore disallowed.

*HOUSE OF LORDS SESSIONAL PAPERS, 80, 89, 144 OF 1831-2. "Copies of Papers recorded in Hm·ald's College, connected with a claim made in the year 1810 by a person calling himself Sir William Reade (should be Read) to the title of Baronet, &c." First, a copy of the official pedigree of Sir John Reade, 1st Bart., as recorded in The Herald's College, containing no mention of a son Matthew. Then the claim, consisting of A, The will of '' Sir Matthew Read," dated 1721. B. c. D, E. Affidavits by Patrick Mullony, John Maly, and two other aged inhabitants of Killaloe and the neighbourhood, dated 1810, that uhey had always known Sir Matthew as a Bart., and second son of Sir John Reade, of Herts, and specifying also his descendants, and their marriages, down to the present claimant (as stated in pedigree given by Playfair). F, A certif. by Sir W. Bebham that he has examd. the P. C. C. Registers of Ireland from 1650-1750, has seen the original will of Sir Matthew, and several other Read wills, none of which have any connection with Sir John Reade (9th May, 1810). · On the claim being made, some of the principal officers of Herald's College, including Sir Isaac Heard, Gartl!'Y', sent a clerk of the latter, James Pulman, to Ireland to investigate. He reports 21st August, 1810, as follows:- (1.) At the register office of the Court of Perogative, Dublin, he searched the Index of Wills, and found no reference to that of Sir Matthew Reade. A clerk in that office then informed him that the alleged will had been brought to the office on the 18th April, 1810, by John Reade, son of the cfaimant, in pursuance of a citation directed to Ann Egan, or Grady, widow, by Patrick Mullony {v. supra). (2) The citation contained no information as to how the woman obtained the will, or where it had been since 1721, nor had the P. C. office made any enquiry on these points. (3) Pulman then saw the will itself, of which he made a Jae simile, now in the Coll. of Arms. (Sir W. Vavasour also examined it later, and confirmed him). It was written on a sheet of soft paper, having the appearance of hot-pressed paper [a modern invention], and without a watermark. The paper seemed to have been dipped, quite recently, in some liquid to give it a yellow colour. The liquid was conjectured, from the smell, to be prepared from boiled walnutJ leaves. Although the pal/er had been folded, it was as yellow inside as outside. The ink is pale, except the signature, whwh looks newer and blacker. The hand is that of an ordinary clerk, the characters and writing nnlike those of 1721. (4) Pulman then went to Scariff and found Patrick Mullany. He said that he knew no Anne Egan, or Grady, and had never served a citation. He knew nothing about the ancestors of the Rev. William, but had been taken by him, with the other deponents, to Limerick, where he signed an affidavit, which he thought was all right. (5) John Maly was then fonnd, and proved to be a man of bad character, known as an "affidavit man" (i.e., he would depose to anything!), was also unable to read or write. He declined to answer questions abont the Reade family. His real age is only between 70 and 80, thongh he deposed that he was 96 or 98. A RECORD OF THE REDES,

The Deed of Settlement of the lands of Sir John Reade, Bart., between his co-heirs, was dated 1st June, 1720. Articles of Agreement for dividing the estate of Sir John Reade amongst the co-heirs, dated 7th March, 1719. A letter exists among the Jpsden Muniments from which it would appear that Edward Reade claimed a portion of the Brocket and Dunstew estate under the original Settlement of Sir Thomas Reade. His great age and impoverished circumstances compelled him to abandon a claim, which apparently might have been maintained.

(6) Pulman hea.rd at Limerick and elsewhere that the claimant had two elder brothers living, John, a clergyman at Carlow, and Charles, living with the claimant. (7) Claimant's son had put in to Sir W. Betham, in 1809, two papers as to his pedigree, not agreeing with each other, or with the latest claim. (The Rev. Wm. first alleged descent from a Major John Reade, second son of the first Bart.). On this report the College of Arms wished to take proceedings, so that they could examine witnesses on oath, but were advised by Sir William Vavasour that they had no focus standi, but that the claim might be contested by the next of kin, i.e., the real descendants of Sir John, in the female line. It is added that no English Register contains any record of Matthew's birth. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Knighted the claimant's son John, as the son of a Boronet, before the fraud was discovered. (Dublin Gazette, 25-7 June, 1811). There is nothing in the printed papers to show why this evidence was suppressed, or why the House of Lords called for copies twenty years later. THE SPURIOUS BROCKET BARONETS (from Playfair, Wm., British Family Antiquity, 1811, VI., 357). The line given is as follows :- (1) Sir JOHN READE, Bart., 16th March, 1641-2 = Susan, daughter of Sir Thomas Style, of Wateringbury, Kent, Bart., d, 6th February, 1693-4. Issue:- I. Sir James, successor. II. Matthew (4th Bart.) III. Peter, d. unm. 4th July, 1681. 1. Mary. (2) Sir JAMES R11ADE = Love, dau. and co-heir of Robt. Dring, Isleworth, Middlesex, Esq, Died 31st October, 1701. Issue:- I. Sir John, succ. 1. Dorothea= Robert Dashwood, son and heir of Sir Robt., Bart. 2. Mary. 3. Anne = Robt. Myddleton, of Chirk Castle, Denbigh. 4. Love= Tho. Winnington, of Wore., Esq., then Secy, for War, and a Lord of the Treasury. 5. Susan, d, of consumption, ret. 7, 24th March, 1717-8. (3) Sir JOHN RE.A.DE, d. of small-pox at Rome, ret. 21-22nd Feb., 1711-2. Title went to his uncle. (4) Sir MATTHEW, residing at Kileavy, Clare, Ireland,= Anne, dau. of Sir Edw. Dowdale, of Drogheda, Knt. (by Anne, dau. of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Desmond). Died June, 1721. His will, copy attested by Deputy Registrar of Registry of the King's Court of Prerog., Ireland, is given in full. In it he calls himself "I, Sir Matthew Reade, of Ki!eavy, co. Clare, Bart." Speaks of "my dear and only lawful son John Reade . . . . my late father Sir John Reade, Bart,-my late brother Sir James Reade, Bart." It is dated 15th June, 1721. (5) Sir JOHN READE, of Kileavy = Anstantia, dau. and heir of Michael Niohill, of Glasconge, Clare, and Rennywell, Limerick. His only son (6) Sir WILLIAM READ, of Ballymacranen, Clare, M.P. for Dublin until his death, = Sarah dau. and heir of Thomas Lucas, of Ballingaddy, co. Clare, Esq., and niece to Charles Lucas, Esq., M.D. Died 12th August, 1787, leaving six sons, of whom the eldest- (1) Sir WILLIAM READ, of Moynoe House, Clare, became rector and Prebendary of Tomgranny, in diocese of Killaloe, was J.P. and quorum for Clare and Galway= Alicia, dau. of Anthony Brady, of Kielty, Esq., and had issue :- I. John= 4th November, 1810, Urania Maria, dau. and heiress of Edmond Hero, of Dublin, Esq. (by Mary, only dau. and heiress of Jervis Heride, of Annadown, co. Galway. 1. Isabella. 2. Alicia. Sir William was alive when Playfair writes (1811). He gives some account of him, e.g., that his loyalty in the Irish Rebellion nearly cost him his life, and that he received eulogistic letters from the Marquis of Cornwallis in consequence. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 99

DOROTHEA, daughter of Sir James Reade, second Baronet, eldest co-heiress of Sir John Reade, third and last Baronet of Brocket Hall, was the wife of Robert Dash wood, Esq., of Northbrook, Oxon, second son of Sir Robert Dashwood, Bart., by Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, of Wickham, Oxon, Bart. She was under age in 1702 ; is mentioned in the will of her maternal aunt, Anne, Lady Kingsale and Ringrone, dated 21st September, 1720, as testatrix's heir (co-heir); mentioned also in the will of her mother, dated 23rd July, 1729, and in that of her sister, Mary, dated 7th August, 1752. Mrs. Dorothea Dashwood married 14th January, 1712 (marriage contract dated 21st July, 1712). She inherited Minsden* on the death of her brother in 1712. In a Deed of Settlement of several manors, messuages, and lands lying situate and being in the counties of Hertford, Oxford, and Middlesex, between the co-heirs of Sir John Reade, Bart., deceased, dated rst June, 1720, the Manor of Dunstew and the Advowson of Dunstew were agreed to be part of the lot or share of Dorothea, wife of Robert Dashwood, Esq., and on the partition of her brother's estate she also received a fourth part of the messuages and tenements in the parishes of St. Giles, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and Covent Garden, Middlesex. In the Kirtlington Archives is the following receipt: June 21st, 1733, Received my share of the Pictures at Brockett Hall, left me by Lady Reade. Doro Dashwood.-Witness, Jonas Evetts. By Robert Dashwood she had one son, Sir James Dashwood, whose son Sir Henry Watkin carried forward the title, and daughters who married respectively George 4th Duke of Manchester, and John Stewart 8th Earl of Galloway. The blood of the Read es has by her passed to the Duke of Manchester and Montrose, the Marquess of Tweeddale, the Earl of Tankerville, the Marquess of Cholmondely, Lady Emily Foley, and very many others of the first rank in the peerage.

ROBERT DASHWOOD, Esq., eldest surviving son of Sir Robert Dashwood, Knt. and Baronet, of Northbrook, in the Parish of Kirtlington, Oxon, married 14th January, 1712, Dorothea, daughter of Sir James Reade, second Baronet of Brocket Hall, Hatfield, and of Minsden, Herts, Sheriff of Herts, I 693, and sister and co-heiress of Sir John Reade, third and last Baronet of Brocket Hall and of Minsden, and died at Paris in September or October, I 728, having predeceased his father, who survived till July, 17 34. Robert Dash wood's son, t James succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grand- "The Manor of Minsden, Hitchin, Herts, formed at the time of the Conquest part of the possessions of the Kings of England. It descended to John Balliol, King of Scotland. In 1517, William Lytton, of l{neb­ worth, Esq,, died seized of this manor, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Robert Lytton, Knt., who died without male issue. Helen Lytton, his daughter and heir, brought this manor in marriage to Sir John Brocket, of Brocket Hall, Knt., by whom she had five daughters. Mary, the youngest, to whom this manor, came married Sir Thomas Reade, of Brocket Hall. Their second son, Sir John Reade, first Baronet, of Brocket Hall, succeeded as lord of the manor, and from him it descended to the latter's son and grandson, Sir James Reade and Sir John Reade, second and third Baronets, of Brocket Hall. On the death of the last-named witihout issue, it came to his sister, Dorothea, daughter and co-heir of Sir ,James Reade and wife of Robert Dashwood, of Northbrook, Oxon, ancestor of Sir George Dashwood, of Kirtlington Park, Oxon, Baronet, and of the present proprietor, Thomas .Alexander Dashwood, of Walworth, Hitchin, Esq. (Oussans' Histor)I of Hertfordshire). tThe eldest son was Chamberlayne Dashwood, who died vit. patr. unmarried. It would appear that the Manor House of Dunstew, was leased by Sir James Dash wood to his cousins the Chamberlaynes. The three succeeding baronets and the surviving sisters of the last baronet of the Ohamberlayne line resided at Dunstew. The Dunstew estate, conveyed to the Dashwoods by Dorothea Re:tde in 1712, has remained ever since in the possession of the Dashwood family. IOO A RECORD OF THE REDES. father, and was High Steward of the University, and M.P. for the County of Oxford. He erected the mansion at Kirtlington. His grandson, Sir Henry W. Dashwood was Lord­ Lieutenant of Oxon, and unsuccessfully contested the county in the Liberal interest. The family of Dashwood were originally of Dorset, then of Somerset, and early in the seventeenth century acquired the manor of Northbrook, Oxon. The present representative of Dorothea Reade is Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, sixth Baronet, who married, in 187 S, Lady Mary Margaret Seymour, youngest daughter of Francis, fifth Marquess of Hertford.

ARMS OF DASHW0OD,-Arg.-on a fesse, double cotised gu, three griffin's heads, erased, or. Crest-a griffin's head erased, pier fesse erminois and gu.

MARY, of Great Marlborough Street, in the parish of St. James's, Westminster, and afterwards of Soho Square, in the parish of St. Anne's, Westminster, Middlesex. Called " Mrs." Mary Reade, in the will of her maternal aunt Anne, Lady Kingsale and Ringrone, (in which will, dated 21st September, 1720, she is described as Testatrix's heir (co-heir) and goddaughter, and was appointed her sole Executrix. The General Court Baron of Mary Reade, Spinster, Lady of the Manor of Minsden, was held for the Manor aforesaid on Thursday, 9th October, I 740, before George Draper,* Gentleman, Steward there. Living at Brocket Hall, 1719, as Mary Reade, Spinster. Administered to the effects of her sister, Mrs. Anne Myddelton, 7th December, 1753. Sole Executrix to the will of her mother, dated 23rd July, 1729. Buried at Hatfield 8th August, 17 54. Will (in which she is described of Soho Square, in the Parish of St. Ann's, Westminster, Co. Middlesex, Spinster, dated 7th ·August, 1752. Admon. of will, with five codicils (the last two of which are dated respectively 20th November, r753, and 26th July, 1754, the other three being undated), granted to Sir James Dashwood, Bart., her nephew, 7th August, 17 54. In her will she desires to be buried with her ancestors, the Reades and the Brackets, in Hatfield Church, Herts. Mentions her cousin, Sir Thomas Style, Bart., his three sons and two daughters. She desires her executors to lay out £500 on a monument to her late dear father and brother, Sir James Reade and Sir John Reade, Barts., to be erected near the Bracket's monument in Hatfield Church, Herts, and dictates the inscription to be placed thereon. Signs her will M. Reade. Mary Reade's admon. de bonis non to her maternal grandfather, Robert Dring, 15th February, 1736. On the division of Sir John Reade's estate, among his sisters and co-heirs, Mary Reade received as her share the lands and estate in the parish of Neithropp, near Banbury, Oxon, and a fourth part of the messuages and tenements in the parishes of St. Giles, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and Covent Garden. Mary Reade's intentions were carried out faithfully by Sir James Dashwood. In Hatfield Church the South Aisle of the Chancel constitutes the Salisbury Chapel, and is the private property of the Cecils. That on the north is the Brocket-Reade Chapel, and was also the private property of the Reade's. On a pedestal against the south wall of the above Chapel are busts of Sir John and Sir James Reade, and the profile of a lady in a medallion, supposed to be Mary herself, the *George Draper, Jun., son of George Draper, Esq., is described as Gentleman, of Hitchin, Herts. A RECORD. OF THE REDES. IOI work of Michael Rysbrack, in 1760. Above are the Arms of Reade :-Gules, a Saltire between four garbs or, with the inescutcheon of Ulster. Beneath is thfs inscription :- Here lyes the Body of Sir JAMES READE Bart: of BROCKET HALL in HERTFORDSHIRE by Sir JOHN READE his Father, and MARY his Wife, daughter of Sir THOS. STYLES* of Kent, Bart. and Sir THOS. READE Bart.t of OXFORDSHIRE, his Grandfather and MARY his Wife, One of the Coheirs of Sir JOHN BROCKETT Knight. He dyed of a Fever in the 52d. Year of his age, the 16th of October 1701. His eminent Piety to God, Justice and Benevolence to Man rendered his Loss inconsolable to his Family, Friends, and Country, leaving by Love his wife, Daughter of ROBERT DRING of ISLEWORTH in MIDDLESEX Esq. one Son and five Daughters. Here also lyes interred his only Son Sir JOHN READE. Bart. who dyed of the Small-pox in his Travells at Rome, in the 22nd Year of his Age, the 22nd Feb. 1711-12 to the irreparable Loss of his Family: a Gentleman of ~reat hopes learning and parts, well vers'd in the Liberal Arts & Sciences, but above all bless'd with that Natural Rectitude of Mmd which only can render all other endowments Valuable to his Friends and Country: by his Death the Name and 'ritle became Extinct in this Branch of the READES, and his Five Sisters becoming Coheirs to his l,;state, the eldest DOROTHEA married ROBERT DASHWOOD Esq. Son and Heir of Sir ROBERT DASHWOOD Bart. of OXFORDSHIRE, and the present Sir JAMES DASHWOOD Bart. her Son is the only living Branch of the said Coheirs; the 3d: Sister ANNE, married ROBERT MYDDLETON Esq. of CHIRK CASTLE in DENBIGHSHIRE; the 4th: Sister LOVE, married THOMAS WINNINGTON Esq. of WORCESTERSHIRE, late Secretary at War; the 5th: Sister SUSAN dyed of a Consumption in the 17th Year of her Age, the 24th: March 1717-18, and is also here interred, a Lady much lamented for her Piety, Singular Good Sense, Great Patience, and Resignation under so lingering an Illness. Here also lies interred Dame LOVE READE, Relict of the above-named Sir JAMES READE Bart. who died in the 76th. Year of her Age, the 9th. of November, 1731, a Lady of Prudence, Piety, and Charity. To the much Revered Memory of those Dear Relations this Monument is Dedicated by their 2d: Daughter MARY READE, who also lyes here interred by Them, whose hope is full of Immortality of a joyful! Resurrection with them to the Mansions of the Blessed. Amen.

ANNE, third sister and co-heir of Sir John Reade, third and last baronet of Brocket Hall, is described as of the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Middlesex ; baptized 13th May, r695, at Hatfield, Herts; married 5th May, r720. She died s.p. a widow and intestate 14th November, 1753. Adman. of her effects granted 7th December, 1753, to her sister Mary. Mentioned in the will of her maternal aunt Anne, Lady Kingsale and Ringrone, 21st September, r720, as one of her co-heirs; mentioned also in the will of her sister, Mary, dated 7th August, 1752, and in that of her mother, dated 23rd July, 1729. On the partition of Sir John Reade's estate, lands lying in the parish of Hatfield, Herts, fell to the lot of Anne Reade, and she also received her share (a fourth part) of the messuages and tenements in the parishes of St. Giles, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and Covent Garden, London. Anne, third daughter of Sir James Reade of Brocket Hall, was married 5th May, 1720, to Robert Myddelton, of Chirk Castle. The following Jetted was written probably about 1722 by the widow Lady Reade, of Brocket, to Robert Myddelton :- Dear Son I am sorry to hear of yr wife's indisposition, tho' very much satisfied of yr tenr conserne for her and yt she has such good friends about her, to advise and take care of her, but think in these cases there is not much to be done only to be very carefull not to take cold, & now ye weather being pretty sharp, & she finding herself pretty well, I am a little fearfull least she should venture to soon out of her chamber and hope this will find her very well recovered, & should be glad to know whether it was any fright or any accident wt occasioned it & how long she might be gon with child. I thank God myself and Daughter are very well & with my Blessing and her service to yu both wt most hearty prayers for all yr health I am Dear Son yr trooly affect mother L Reade. Be pleased to give our service to yr ladys. , ...... my Daug-htr yt Mrs. Walpoole and she goes on very well for she has miscarried very lately but is now quite well again and was here in a visset last week and is now much for the better, it is very cold here. To Robert Myddleton, Esqr at Chirk Castle Denbighshire. Wrexham bagg Jany ye 31st. *In error for Style. tin error for Knight. :\:This letter was given to General Meredith Read by Mrs. Myddelton-Biddulph, of Chirk Castle. 102 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

ROBERT MYDDELTON, Esq., of Chirk Castle, Denbigh, M.P. for Denbigh; mentioned in the will of his mother-in-law, dated 23rd July, 1729. He died 5th April, 1733. Chirk Castle is now the property of Richard Myddelton-Biddulph, Esq., J.P., late Lieutenant 1st Life Guards. (See Burke's Landed Gentry, MYDDELTON-BIDDULPH OF CHIRK CASTLE). The Mortimers' Chirk Castle is supposed to have become the property of Lord St. John of Bletsho, a member of which family, in 1595, sold it to Sir Thomas Myddelton, Knt., Lord Mayor of London in 1613. His son, Sir Thomas Myddelton, Knt., M.P. for Denbigh, declared himself against the royal cause. It would appear he soon reverted to loyalty. His park trees were cut down and his castle nearly demolished.* He died in 1666, aged 80,t and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Myddelton, of Chirk Castle, who was created a Baronet, 4th July, 1660. This baronetcy expired on the death of the fourth baronet, Sir William Myddelton, 5th January, 1 718 (see Burke's Extinct Baronetcz'es ). The eminent Cambrian House of Myddelton has contributed three families to the Baronetage of England. The senior line, the Myddeltons of Gwaynynog, Denbigh, derives from a distinguished chieftain in the 12th century, Ririd Blaidd, Lord of Penllyn, in Merionethshire, within the ancient kingdom of Powys. He took his surname of Blaidd, or the Wolf, from his maternal ancestor, Blaidd Rhudd, or the Bloody Wolf, Lord of Gest, near Penmorfa, whose standard bore a Wolf passant on an azure ground. Some Welsh verses in reference to him have been preserved, which may be thus translated :-·" I have a friendly Wolf that stands by me to crush the insulting foe. It is not the forest Wolf, scattering the harmless flock, but the Wolf of the field of battle, though at other times he is mild and liberal." This warrior married Gwervyl, daughter and heiress of Cynfyn Hirdref, and son of Blaidd Rhudd, Lord of Gest. For an account of his descendants see Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd edition (1847), vol. II., p. 905. There is a portrait in Chirk Castle which may be Sir Thomas Reade, of Barton Court, Anne Reade's great-grandfather. ARMS OF MYDDELTON.-Argent, on a bend vert, three wolves' heads erased of the field. Crest.-A dexter hand proper, issuing out of a ducal coronet, or. Motto.-In veritate triumpho.

LOVE, fourth sister and co-heir of Sir John Reade, third and last baronet of Brocket Hall. Baptized 25th August, 1696, at Hatfield. Married 6th August, 1719. Died 17 30. Mentioned in the will of her maternal aunt Anne, Lady Kingsale and Ringrone, 21st September, 1720, as one of her co-heirs; also mentioned in the will of her mother, dated 23rd July, 1729. Upon the partition of the estate between the five daughters and co-heirs of Sir James Reade, Brocket Hall came to the share of his fourth daughter Love, who married the Right Hon. Thomas Winnington, M.P., upon whose death it was sold to Matthew Lamb, Esq., M.P. for Peterborough, created a baronet in 17 5 5, whose son succeeded to the estate and was created Viscount and Baron Melbourne, who was father to Amelia, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston,* grandmother of the present proprietor, Earl Cowper, of Panshanger. In addition to the estate of Brocket Hall, Love Winnington also received ( on *This is incorrect. The w:!.lls on one side were breached, as may be seen to this day. tJ. P. Neale's "Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland," 2nd Series, Vol. V., p. 80. London, 1829. *It will thus be seen that the modern Brocket Hall was the residence of two Premiers, Lords Melbourne and Palmerston. The Park, 500 acres, was used as a racecourse by Lord Melbourne, and the races were itttended by the Prince Regent itnd his brothers, A RECORD OF THE REDES. 103

the partition of her brother's estate), a fourth part of the messuages and tenements in the parishes of St. Giles, St. Martin',-in-the-Fields, and Covent Garden. By Thomas Winnington she had one child, viz., FRANCIS READE WINNINGTON. Born 16th July, 1720. Died same year. Buried at Stanford, Worcestershire.

THE RIGHT HoN. THOMAS WINNINGTON, of Stanford Court, Worcester, and Jure uxoris, of Brocket Hall, Hatfield, Herts (deed dated 1720), son of Salway Winnington, Esq., of Stanford Court, and of the parish of St. James's, London (by Anne, his wife, second daughter cf Thomas Foley, Esq., of Whitley Court, Worcester, M. P. for Surrey, and sister of Thomas, first Lord Foley), was born 31st December, 1696; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 25th April, 1713, aged 16; student of the Middle Temple, 1714. He was Member of Parliament for Droitwich, from February, 1726 to 1741, and for the city of Worcester, from 1741 to 1746; appointed Lord of the Admiralty in 1730; of the Treasury in 1736; Cofferer, and of His Majesty's Privy Council in 1740 ; and lastly, in 1743, Paymaster General of the Forces, in which employment he died. This gentleman is mentioned in the will of his mother-in-law, dated 23rd July, 1729. He married 6th August, 1719, Love, daughter of Sir James Reade, second Bart., of Brocket Hall, sister and co-heir of Sir John Reade, third and last Bart., of Brocket Hall, and of Minsden; died 23rd April, I 746, and was buried in Stanford Church, Worcester, M.I., apparently without surviving issue. By his will, proved 2nd May, 17 46, he left Brocket Hall, etc., to collaterals of his own family. Brocket Hall was shortly afterwards sold to Matthew Lamb, Esq. (vide supra). The Right Hon. Thomas Winnington appointed Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) and Mr. John Ingram his executors. The following receipt is in the Kirtli'ngton Archives, 21st June, 1733 :- Received my share of the pictures at Brocket Hall left to my wife by Lady Reade. T. WINNINGTON. Witness, Jonas Evetts. ARMS OF WINNINGTON.-Quarterly-lst and 4th, Arg., an orle between 8 martlets sa.; 2nd and 3rd, e. saltire engr. or. The Reade portraits, in the possession of the Winningtons, were burnt. Sir F. Winnington wrote to General Meredith Read: "As far as I know I have not got any letters or portraits of the Reades. There were some before the fire I am sure, and they were in a corridor upstairs which was all burnt."

SUSANNA, fifth daughter of Sir James Reade. Baptized 5th April, 1700, at Hatfield, Herts. Died of consumption 24th March, 1717-8, aged I 7 years. Buried at Hatfield, 26th April, 1718. Her property descended to her four sisters. Unmarried. Admon. granted, 5th July, 1718, in C.P.C., to her mother, Dame Love Reade, widow. In admon. she is described as "Susanna Reade, Spinster, late of Brockett Hall, Herts, but deceased in St. Anne's, Westminster." CHAPTER IX. THE AMERICAN LINE.

RICHARD READ, 1619, HELEN, daughter of Sir A. Cave. ( Vide Chapter 2). I I (1) ALEXANDER T MARY RUFFIN (2) Sir CHARLEs,CATHERINE RUSSELL. (1620-81). I (= 1649). (1622-74). I I I (1) ALEXANDER (living 1681). I (2) JOHN (b. 1663), (2) CHARLES (b, 1658), (1) HENRYIMARY MOLINES. (3) RUSSELL (b, 1664), (1662), {3) EDWARD (1), (4) CHARLES.

(4) RUSSELL (b. 1664), (5) ELIZABETH=THOMAS RUFFIN (1666). (d. 1677). (5) EDWARD (2) (b. 1666).

(6) THOMAS (d. 1669),

(7) MARY (b, 1653),

(8) JANE (b, 1660).

(9) ELIZABETH. I Colonel JOHN (b. 1688) 1 MARY HOWELL (1711-84). (1) Hon. GEORGE-GERTRUDEI Ross (2) WILLIAMI (3) JOHNI (4) COMMODOREI THOMAs=MARY PEALE. I (b. 1733), (d. 1802). (1735-63). (b, 1737). {1740-88), s.p. s.p. I I I (5) Colonel J AMES1 S. CORREY, (6) ANDREW, (7) MARY=Colonel (1783-1822). I s.p. BEDFORD. (I) JAMES, Knight of Sweden (d. 1853).

(2) SUSANNE=JOACHIM ECKARD, I I I I (1) JoHN. (2) Hon. GEORGET-c. THOMPSON. (3) WILLIAM,ANNE (4) Hon, JOHN,MARTHA MEREDITH. s.p. (1765-1836). (1767-1846). I McCALL. (1769-1854), I Hon. GEORGE=rL, D'ORSEY. Hon. GEORGE Hon, JOHN MEREDITH=rPRISCILLA (1788-1837), 1 (1797-1889), (1799-1874). I MARSHALL.

-I-- Other issue, I (1) GEORGE= SUSAN CHAPMAN. General JOHN MEREDITII,,DELPHINE M. PUMPELLY. (1812-59). Knight of Greece Issue with others, GEORGE, (1837-96).

(2) Hon. WILLIAM T.= s. L. THOMAS, (1792-1873).

(3) GUNNING BEDFORD I (d. 1826) and others.

(1) Major HARM~N P.=C. M, DE CARRRON (2) JoJN M. (3) EMriY M.=(1) Hon. F. A. STOUT, I (b, 1860). D'ALLONDANS,1------~------~------· (b, 1869). (2) E. SPENCER, (4) MARIE DELPHINE M.= LE COMTE MAX DE FORAS, A RECORD OF THE REDES. 105

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RICHARD READ or Reade (third son of Thomas Reade, Esq., Barton Court), by Helen, daughter of Sir Alexander Cave of Rotherby (by Anne, second of the six co-heiresses of Sir John Brocket), had two sons-Alexander and Charles, afterwards Sir Charles. ALEXANDER, born in 1620, on the occasion of his marriage at Dunstew, 1st January, 1649, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Ruffin, Esq., of Ayot Parva, Herts, had the manor of Pomney granted him. Pomney (vide supra) formed part of the group of manors included in the Abbatial manor of Barton, and lies directly facing Nuneham. He was buried at Radley, 28th April, 1681, having had issue-(1) Alexander, baptized at Radley 1656- administered to his father's effects 1681; (2) Charles, baptized at Radley 1658, buried there 1668 ; (3) Edward, buried at Radley 1664; (4) Russell, baptized at Radley 1664; (5) a second Edward, baptized at Radley 1666; (6) Thomas, buried at Radley 1669 ; (7) Mary, baptized at Radley 1653; (8) Jane, baptized at Radley 1660, and (9) Elizabeth. Of this numerous progeny no record has been preserved. Having regard to the interest exhibited in Irish affairs by their powerful cousin, Sir John Reade, of Brocket Hall, the probability is that some of them found their way to Ireland. Documentary evidence goes to show a friendly intimacy between their father and Sir Compton Reade. At the decease of the former the estate of Pomney would appear to have been alienated. Alexander was witness to the will of his uncle, Sir Thomas, in 1650. In a document formerly at Shipton Court he is stated to have been residing at Brocket Hall in 1662. He was witness of the marriage of his cousin Sir John with Susanne Style ; and in the Tables of the Visitation of Berks, 1665, is this entry:-" Alexander Reade, gentleman, non-appearance on first summons. Harmer Hundred. Alexander Reade, at London. His father wa.s a younger brother to Sir Thomas Reade, of Barton, near Abbingdon." [Rawlz'nson MSS., D. 865, Bodi. Libr.]

Alexander's younger brother, SIR CHARLES, of Whitefriars, London, and of Dublin, was undoubtedly a man of mark. Baptized at Dunstew, 22nd April, 1622. He went over to Ireland during the civil war in the King's cause, and in the Kirtlington Mttniments we find him in two separate documents of different dates (the first being 16th May, 1688), styled "Sir Charles,"* having doubtless received the accolade in Dublin. His wife was Catherine Russell, a kinswoman of his cousin, Sir William Russell, of Strensham. We find him named with Sir John Reade as co-trustee of the marriage settlement of a tenant, the indenture being dated 18th November, 1645. He was buried 6th April, 1674, at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, adman. being granted to his relict, Catherine, 5th September in the same year. By her he had (besides Henry, his heir), John, born 1663; Russell,t baptized at St. Bride's 6th March, 1664, and Charles; three brothers, who are believed to have migrated to Ireland; and one daughter, Elizabeth, who married in Hatfield Church, 10th December, 1666, Thomas Ruffin, of Ayot Parva, her first cousin, who was buried at Hatfield in 1677, leaving issue three sons, baptized at Hatfield.

*Iu_asmuch as he was knighted for his services to the Royal Cause, it has been conjectured that he joined in the defence of Barton Court. tHis sponsors were Henry, son of Sir William Rusaell, of Strensham, Bridstock Harford, M.P.--both cousins-and Anne Moseley. 106 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Sir Charles Read's son, HENRY, was baptized at St. Bride's nth June, r662, his sponsors being Henry Meese, John Jenkins, and Jane Hill. He resided in Ireland, chiefly in Dublin, where he found a wife in Mary Molines, a descendant of the old Oxfordshire house of De Molines, which survives in Lord Ventry. By her he had one son,

JOHN, born in Dublin I 5th January, 1688, who was the first of his family to cross over to America. "He fell in love," writes Scharf in his History of Delaware, "at an early age in the old country with his cousin, a beautiful and accomplished English girl, who died suddenly before their engagement ended in marriage. This shock so overcame the lover that, after struggling in vain against his melancholy amidst familiar scenes, he determined, in spite of the earnest opposition of his parents, to seek relief in entire change. Crossing the ocean to Maryland, he purchased lands in several counties of that Province, to which he added others in Delaware. On his plantation in Cecil Co., Maryland, he possessed a spacious brick mansion, subsequently destroyed by fire, with outbuildings, offices, and comfortable quarters for his slaves, whom he treated with an unvarying humanity, which became hereditary in his family." As one of the original proprietors of Charlestown, Colonel Read (as he had become) was appointed by the Colonial Legislature one of the Commissioners to lay out and govern the new town. After a long period of single life, his early sorrow was assisted by marriage, in 1730-1, with Mary Howell, sprung from the Howells of Caerleon and Caerphilly, where she was born in 17 II, and from whence, at a tender age, she removed with her parents to Delaware, where her father, Thomas Howell, was a large planter. Among the descendants of these Howells was Verina Howell, wife of President Jefferson Davis. Mrs. Read died 22nd September, 1784. The arms of Howell are :-Gules, three towers triple towered argent. Colonel John Read died 16th June, 1756, at his seat in New Castle County, Delaware. Of his sons by Mary Howell, the eldest achieved unique distinction as one of the fathers of the American Republic. This gentleman, the Hon. GEORGE READ of Delaware, born 18th September, 1733, in Cecil Co., Maryland, was educated by the celebrated Dr. Allison, called to the bar 1753 in Philadelphia, and in 1763 rose to be Attorney General under the Crown. During his tenure of office he uttered the striking prophecy that it the English Government continued to tax the Colonies without giving them direct representation in Parliament, it would ultimately lead, not only to independence, but to the Colonies also surpassing England in her staple manufactures. These words were spoken in 1765, just eleven years prior to the Declaration of Independence. He was a firm friend to the mother country, and did everything in his power to prevent separation, even voting in the first instance against the fateful Declaration. But finding the English Government obdurate, he finally signed, and from that moment imported his personal influence into the national cause, being the central figure of a powerful group, foremost in founding the new order of things. As Chairman of the Delaware Committee he penned the address to the King, which Lord Shelburne averred so impressed his Majesty that he perused it twice. Resigning his office of Attorney General, he took his seat in the first Continental Congress, which met at Philadelphia in 1774. He acted as President of the first Naval Committee in 1775; and as President of the Constitutional Convention of Delaware in 1776, was author of the first Constitution, and of the original edition of the laws of that State. After the capture of President McKinley, he served as General and Acting President of Delaware, and in 1782 became judge of the National High Court of Admiralty cases, an august tribunal which proved eventually to have been the precursor of the Supreme Court of the U.S. In 1785 he was appointed High Commissioner to arrange the boundary dispute between the States of Massachusetts and New York, and in the year following Delegate to the Annapolis Convention, out of which arose the Convention that met at Philadelphia in 1787 to frame the Constitution of the U.S. After the adoption of the Constitution he was duly elected A RECORD OF THE REDES. 107

Senator, and elected the second time, but in 1793 he resigned in order to resume his office of Chief Justice of Delaware, in which post he passed away, 21st September, 1798, and was buried at Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Del. He was one of the two statesmen--and the only Southern one-who signed the great State Papers on which American history is based, viz., the original petition to the king of the first Congress of 1774, the Declaration of Indepen­ dence in 1776, and the Constitution of the U.S. in 1787. His portrait exists in the Hall of Independence, in the Capitol of Washington, and in the Art Gallery of Yale University.

(See The Life and Correspondence of George Read of Delaware 1 by William T. Read; also Scharfs History of Delaware.

The Hon. GEORGE READ-known distinctively as "THE SIGNER "-married on nth January, 1763, at Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Del., Gertrude, daughter of the Rev. George Ross, the first Rector of that Parish, son of David Ross, Laird of Balblair, in Ross-shire, N.B., a descendant, through the Houses of Balmachy, Shandwick, and Balnagown, from the Earls of Ross, being in fact 19th in descent from Malcolm 1st Earl, 1153. The Hon. Mrs. George Read survived, dying 2nd September, 1802, and is buried by her husband. Through this alliance the American branch enjoy a royal descent, i.e., from the kings of Scotland in two converging lines, of which the following presents a bare outline :

Descent from the ROYAL HOUSE OF SCOTLAND:­ IsABEL, naturalised daughter of William the Lion = ROBERT DE BRUCE. I -I MAUD BRUCE, sister of King Robert Bruce= HUGH, Earl of Ross (whose sister Euphemia= Robert II.)

_1 HUGH R~ss, Baron of Rarichies and Balnagown = MARGARET DE BARCLAY, I_ 1 WILLIAM Ross, Baron of Rarichies and Balnagown = CHRISTIANA, daughter of Lord Livingstone. _I_ WALTER ~oss, Baron of Rarichies and Balnagown = KATHEREIN McTYRE, L HUGH R~ss II., Baron of Rarichies and Balnagown=JANET, daughter of the Earl of Sutherland by Helen I Sinclair, daughter of the Earl of Orkney. Rev. ;:tlll Ross, of Little Allan, Sub-Dean of Ross= GRISELLE MAODONALD, niece of the Lord of I the Isles.

WALTER R~ss, Laird of Shandwick, = JANE TULLOCH. I HUGH Rost Laird of Balmachie, was succeeded by his elder son, I_ I DONALD Ross, Laird of Balmachie, who was succeeded by

_I- I . . WALTER Ross, Laird of Balmachie, whose successor was _I_ HUGH Rost Laird of Ea!maohie, followed by his elder son,

_I- GEORGE Ro~s, Laird of Balmachie, who = MARGARET McCULLOCH. _I-, 108 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

ANDREW Ross, Laird of Balblair, was the father of _I_I DAVID Ross, of Balblair, who=MARGARET STRONACH. I .Rev. GEoR1E Ross, M.A." (ordained by the Bishop of London), Rector of Emmanuel Church, New Castle, I Delaware = secondy, CATHERINE VAN GEZEL, of Amsterdam.

GERTRUDE koss (whose brother George Ross was one of the "Signers")= GEORGE READ, "The Signer," '-1 The Hon. JOHN READ, Senator, etc.= MARTHA, daughter of General Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of the I of America. --1 The Hon. JORN MEREDITH READ, Attorney Grneral, and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania = PRISCILLA, I--r daughter of the Hon. J. Marshall, of Boston, U.S.A. General JOHN MEREDITH READ, who=DELPRINE MARIE, daughter of Harmon Pumpelly, Esq., of Albany.

A further descent from the ROY AL HOUSE OF SCOTLAND:- RoBERT BRUCE (2nd in the preceding table)= as his first wife ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Adam Mure, of I Rowallan. ~ EGIDIA BRU0lii =Sir WILLIAM DOUGLAS, of Nithsdale. i --1- EGIDIA DOUGLAS= HENRY SINCLAIR, second Earl of Orkney. I --1 HELEN SINOL.ilIB = GORDON, Earl of Sutherland. I --1 JANET GORDON= HUGH Ross II., Baron of Rarichies (see preceding descent), direct lineal ancestor of the late General John Meredith Read. ARMS OF Ross.-Gules, three lions rampant argent. Crest.-A lion rampant gules. Motto.-Nobilis est ira leonis. Of the brothers of the Hon. George Read, WILLIAM, of Havana, born r 735, was assassinated in 1763; JOHN, of Cecil Co., Maryland, born in 1737 at New Castle, Del., became a Colonel in the U.S. army, and d.s.p. in 1808 at Pottsgrove, Pa. COMMODORE THOMAS, t his next brother, the first officer in the U.S. navy to attain that rank, was born in 1740 at New Castle, Del., and obtaining substantive rank in 1776 successfully defended the Delaware, affording valuable assistance to Washington in the passage of that river, and subsequently commanded a battery at Trenton, for which he received the thanks of the General in command. In 1787-8 he discovered two islands, which he named Morris and Alliance, in the Caroline group. In the latter year he died s.p. at White Hill, his residence in New Jersey, eel. 48, having married in 1779, Mary, daughter of Oswald Peale, Esq., of Peale Hall, Philadelphia, and widow of Robert Field. She died 27th February, 1816, at Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, the seat of her son-in-law Senator Stockton, {1Jf. 7 5. *By his first marriage with Joanna Williams of Rhode Island he had two sons-John Ross, who preceded George Read as Attorney-General of Delaware; and Rev. CEneas Ross, who attained eminence as a preacher. tRobert Morris, the financier of the American Revolution, said, "While integrity, benevolence, patriotism, and courage, united with the most gentle manners, are respected and admired among men, the name of this valuable citizen and soldier will be revered and beloved. He was in the noblest import of the word, a man."- Obituary Notice of Commodore Thomas Read. A .RECORD OF THE REDES.

The next brother was Colonel JAMES READ, born at New Castle, Del., 1743. For services at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown he was promoted from Lieutenant to Colonel, and subsequently for a long term of office served as Head of the Marine Department of the U.S. He died at Philadelphia, 31st December, 1822, in his 80th year, having married 9th July, 1770, Susanne Correy of the Correys of Chester Co., Pa., leaving-a son and two daughters-

J AMES READ, born 1783 at Philadelphia, who in 1815 visited Stockholm in company with Sir Robert Kerr Porter and was there created a Knight of the Order of the Amaranth (instituted 1645) by the Queen of Sweden. Died unmarried 29th October, 1853, at Philadelphia and was buried there. SUSANNE, born 25th December, 1776 at Philadelphia, died there 3rd December, 1861, having married 17th March, 1803, Joachim Frederic Eckard, Danish Consul at Philadelphia. He died in Venezuela 14th September, 1837. Their son,

The Rev. Dr. ]AMES READ ECKARD (1805-1887), Professor of Moral Philosophy at Lafayette College, married Margaret Esther, daughter of Dr. Nicholas S. Bayard (son of Colonel John Bayard, who was uncle of the Hon. J. A. Bayard of Delaware), by Esther, only daughter of General Lachlan Mackintosh of Georgia, a descendant of the brother of General Mackintosh of Borlum, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Edward Reade of Ipsden, Oxon (vide supra). The present representative is their second son, the Rev. Leighton Wilson Eckard, M.A., born 1845, pastor of the Church at Abington, Pa., who has issue.

ANNE CoRREY, died unmarried 3rd December, 1847. ARMB OF C0RREY.-Sa. on a chevron between three griffins' heads erased or, as many estoiles of the field. Crest.-Out of a ducal coronet or a demi griffin, ppr., wings semee of trefoils sa. In commemoration of the valuable services rendered by Commodore Thomas and Colonel James Read at Trenton, bronze tablets in their honour were placed on the monument erected on the battle-field there, which was inaugurated in 1896. It remains to be added that ANDREW, the youngest brother, of Cecil Co., Maryland, who inherited considerable property, died unmarried.

MARY, the only sister of the Hon. George Read, "The Signer," was born 1745, at New Castle, Del., and married at Emmanuel Church to Colonel Gunning Bedford, senior, who served as Lieutenant in the French war of 1755, and obtained distinction in the war of Independence. He was gazetted Major, 20th March, 1775, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Delaware Regiment, 19th January, 1776; and was wounded when leading his men to the attack at the battle of White Plains. Afterwards he rose to be Muster-Master-General, member of the Continental Congress, and Governor of Delaware. He died 30th September, 1797. His wife survived him as late as 1820, and was buried at Pottsgrove, Pa. They had no issue. ARMS OIi' BEDF0RD,-Gules three helmets argent. We now come to the children of the Hon. George, "The Signer," by Gertrude Ross. Of the sons, JOHN, the eldest, died in infancy. The next, viz., the Hon. GEORGE, born at New Castle, Del., 29th August, 1765, was for nearly 30 years U.S. District Attorney of Delaware, and had the honour in that capacity of entertaining the Marquis de Lafayette. He died at New Castle, 3rd September, 1836, and was buried at Emmanuel Church. His portrait was painted by Wortmiiller. He married 30th October, 1786, a cousin in IIO A RECORD OF TRE REDES.

Catherine, daughter of General William Thompson, a distinguished officer in the war of Independence, by Catherine Ross, sister of Gertrude Ross (vide supra), and left issue.

ARMS OF THOMPSON.-Argent, a bend gules, on a canton of the second a cross of the first.

The third son, WILLIAM READ, born at New Castle, Del., 10th October, 1767, and baptized at Emmanuel Church, was for many years Consul-General for the kingdom of Naples. He died in Philadelphia, 25th September, 1846, and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. He married 22nd September, 1796, Anne, daughter of Archibald McCall, of Philadelphia, by Judith, daughter of Peter Kemble, President of the Provincial Council of N.J., a lady who was daughter of S. Van Cortlandt by Gertrude, daughter of Peter Schuyler. Judith Kemble's sister was wife of General Gage, who commanded the English troops in Boston. She died 17th July, 1845, and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia, leaving issue. ARMS OF McCALL.-Gules, two arrows in saltire argent, surmounted by a fess chequy of the second and sa., between three buckles also of the second, all within a bordure engr. or. Crest.-A leg in armour couped at the calf ppr., and spurred or. Motto.-Dulce periculum. The fourth son of the "Signer" attained high distinction, alike, as lawyer, financier, and philanthropist, and especially as one of the leaders of the Federal Party. This gentleman, the Hon. JOHN READ, was born 17th July, 1769, at New Castle, Del., and baptized at Emmanuel Church; graduated at Princeton, 1787, admitted to the bar 1791, and removing to Philadelphia became City Solicitor, member of the Common and Supreme Councils, and took an active part in the defence of the Delaware during the . By President Adams he was appointed in 1797 Agent-General of the U.S. under Jay's Treaty, until its termination 1809. As member of the Pa. Legislature he was Chairman of the famous Committee of 34 in 1816; Senator 1816-7. During the yellow fever outbreak of 1793 he remained at his post in Philadelphia, risking his life on behalf of the sufferers. He died at Trenton, N.J., 13th July, 1854, mt. 85, and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. He married 25th June, 1796, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Martha, eldest daughter of General Samuel Meredith, of Philadelphia (1740-1817), member of the Continental Congress, who was appointed by his intimate friend George Washington the first Treasurer of the U.S., by Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Cadwalader, M.D. (1707-1779), member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pa.-¥ Mrs. Read was granddaughter of Rees Meredith, of Philadelphia, branches of which old Cambrian family were Baronets in Kent and Meath, and survive in Lord Athlumney. She died in 1816, and was buried first at Harrisburg, Pa., and afterwards re-interred at Christ Church, Philadelphia. From this alliance the American branch is descended from the ancient kings of Wales, as shown in the subjoined pedigree.

Descent from the ancient KINGS OF WALES :­ RHODRI-MAWR, King of all Wales, died 876. \__ . I CADELL, Prmce of South Wales. I --1. H0WELL-DDA, Kmg of all Wales. I -I

*Dr. Cadwalader had two sons-General John Cadwalader (1743-1786), whose daughter Frances married the 2nd Lord Erskine; and Colonel Lambert Cadwalader (1741-1823), whose son, General Thomas Cadwal:1der. (1796-1873), was the father of Mary, wife of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, a Trustee of the Umvers1ty of Pa. and a well-known author, and of the Hon, John Lambert Cadwalader, first Assistant­ Secretary of State of the U.S. from 1874 to 1877. A RECORD OF THE REDES. III

OWEN, Prince of South Wales. I --1 EINION, eldestJ son, k.v.p. _I_ I . TUDOR-MAWR, Prince of South Wales. I --1 RHYS AP TUDOR-MAWR, Prince of South Wales. _I_ I GRIFFITHI__ AP RHYS, Prince of South Wales, I RHYS AP GRIFFITH, Chief Justico of South Wales. _I_ I RHYS GRYD, Lord of Yestradtywy. I__ I RHYS MYCHYLLT, Lord of Llandovery Castle. _I_ I RHYS VAUGHN, of Yestradtywy. I__ I RHYS-GLOFF, Lord of Oymeydmaen. I --1 MADOC AP RHYS, I_ I TRAHAIRN-GocH, of Llyn, Grainoc, and Penllech, I_I DAVID GOCH, of Penllech.

_I- I EVAN AP DAVID-G0CH, of Grainoc and Penllech, temp. 1352, had by his wife, Lady Eva, daughter of Einion ap Oelynnin, of Llwydiarth, in Montgomeryshire a descendant of Bleddyn ap I Cynfyn, Prince of Wales, founder of one of tho Royal Tribes, -I MAD0C AP IEVAN, of Grainoc. I--, DEIKWS-DDu, who had by his wife, Gwen, daughter of Ievanddu, a descendant of Maeloc Crwm, chieftain of I-, the 7th Royal Tribe of Wales, 1175, EINION AP DEIKWS, who = MORVYDD, daughter of Matw ap Llowasch. I_ I ROWEL AP EINION, who = MALI, daughter of Llewllyn ap Ievan. I--, GRIFFITH AP ROWEL, who GWENLIAN, daughter of Einion ap levan Lloyd. I__ = I LEWIS AP GRIFFITH, of Yshute, who= ETHLI (or ELLEN), daughter of Edward ap Ievan Llanoddyn by his I-, wife, Catharine Griffith, a descendant of King Edward I. ROBERTI __ AP LEWIS, who=GwRvYL (or GWYRRL), daughter of Llewllyn ap David, of Lian Rwst, Denbighshire, I Il2 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

EvAN AP ROBERT AP LEWIS, of Rhiwlas and Vron Goch.

-'-1 OWEN AP EVAN. I --1 ELLEN EVANS= OADWALADER THOMAS AP HUGH, of Kiltalgarth, Llanvawr, Merionethshire, and had by L_ him, who died ante 1683, JOHN CADWA~,ADER, of Philadelphia, who= at Friends' Meeting, Lower Merion, Pa., 29th December, 1699, MARTHA, daughter of Dr. Edward Jones by his wife, Mary, daughter of Dr. Thomas I Wynne, of Philadelphia, also of Royal Descent. Dr. THOMAS bADWALADER, of Philadelphia, who= 18th June, 1738, HANNAH, daughter of Thomas Lambert. _I_ MARGARET C~DWALADER, who=19th May, 1772, General Samuel Meredith. _I_ I MARTHA MEREDITH, who= 1796, JOHN READ, of Philadelphia (son of George Read, a Signer of the I--, Declaration of Independence). Chief Justice JOHN MEREDITH READ, of Philadelphia, born 1797, died 1874, who had, by his first wife, I PRISCILLA MARSHALL, the late -I General JOHN MEREDITH READ.

A further descent from the ancient KINGS OF WALES :­ MAROHWEITHIAN,-', Prince of one of the 15 Tribes of North Wales and Lord of Ys Aled. MAR0HWYSTT, I -I YSDRWYTH. -,I TAGNO, -,I TYFID,'-, liEILIN. I-, KYRNRIG AP LLOWAROH. I -.-, EIYNION AP KYNRIG, '~1 DAVID AP EIYNION. I -I EVAN DDU, --,I EVAN AP CooH of Bryammer, co. Denbigh. -'-, TUDOR AP REES. I--, A RECORD OF THE REDES. 113 REES-'-, GOOH AP TYDER, EvAN AP REES GOOH. 1_ I HUGH AP EVAN, --,I THOMAS AP HUGI{, I__ I 0ADWALADER'--, AP THOMAS AP RUGH=ELLEN EVANS. Ron, JOHN 0ADWALADER of Phila.=MARTHA JONES, from whom was descended (vide preceding pedigree) the late General John Meredith Read.

ARMS OF MEREDITH.-Argent, a lion ramp. sa., gorged with a collar and chain affixed thereto reflexed over the back or. Cresti.-A demi-lion ramp. sa.. collared and chained or. Motto.-Heb Dduw heb ddim a Dduw a digon. MARY, only sister of the Hon. John Read, born 1st September, 1770, at New Castle, Del. ; married Matthew Pearce, of Poplar Neck, Cecil Co., Maryland, whose mother, Miss Carroll, was a niece of Lord Baltimore. The Pearces emigrated from Yorkshire· to Maryland, in 1660, in the person of William Pearce who was High Sheriff of Cecil Co. in 1687. Matthew Pearce, by Mary (Read) his wife, left issue twelve children, of whom Anastasia Gertrude married Dr. Allen McLane (vide infra).

ARMS OF PEAROE.-Azure, a ducal coronet between three crosses orosslet fitchee or, two and one. Reverting to the Hon. George Read (2 ), by Catherine Thompson he had issue:-

(1) The Hon. GEORGE READ (3) of Del., born 4th June, 1788; died rst November, 1837 at New Castle. Succeeded his father as U.S. Dist. Attorney, married at Baltimore, 19th April, 1810, Louisa R., daughter of Dr. Nathan D'Orsey, and by her had:- (i.) Hon. GEORGE READ (4), born 16th October, 1812; died at Rossmere, near Columbia, Arkansas, 22nd July, 1859, having had issue by Susan, daughter of R. M. Chapman, Esq., of Virgiraia, with others George, the 5th of the name.

(2) The Hon. WILLIAM THOMPSON READ, born at New Castle, Del., 22nd August, 1792. Secretary U.S. Legation at Buenos Ayres, and Senator of Del.; died s.p. 27th January, 1873, having married Miss Sallie Latimer Thomas, who predeceased him. He was a founder of the Hist. Soc. of Delaware, and author of Lift and Correspondence of George Read of Delaware, bis grandfather, "The Signer." (3) GUNNING BEDFORD READ, a barrister, died at New Castle, Del., 1826. (4) CHARLES H. READ, born rSoo, a barrister, died at New Castle, Del., 1834. (S) JOHN D. READ, born 1803, also a barrister, died 1831 at New Castle, Del. (6) CATHERINE ANNE, born 1794, married at New Castle. Del., 18rz, Dr. Allen McLane of Wilmington, uncle of the late R. M. McLane, U.S. Minister in Paris. She died 1826, and he married secondly, Anastasia Gertrude, fourth daughter of Matthew Pearce of Poplar Neck, Md. (vtde supra), dying 1845 without male issue. (7) MARY GERTRUDE, born 1805, died at New Castle, Del., unmarried, 14 II4 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Reverting to the next brother of the Hon. George Read (2), viz., William Read, by Anne, daughter of Archibald McCall, he had issue :- ( 1) The Hon. GEORGE READ, of Philadelphia, born 10th June, 1797. He resided nearly 40 years in Spain as Consul for the U.S. Died unmarried cet. 92, at Philadelphia, 18th March, 1889. (2) WILLIAM ARCHIBALD READ, born 1800, died unmarried in 1865. (3) JOHN READ, born 1802, a barrister, died 1846, buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. (4) SAMUEL McCALL READ, born 1810, died s.p. 1860. (5) MARY, born 1799 at Philadelphia. Died 7th July, 1875, having married 1827, Coleman Fisher of Philadelphia (1793-1857). Issue, two sons and three daughters. Present representative, William Read Fisher, Esq., of Philadelphia. Reverting to the Hon. John Read, fourth son of "The Signer," he had issue by Martha Meredith, his wife : (1) The Hon. JOHN MEREDITH READ, LL.D., of whom presently. (2) EDWARD READ, born 1799, died in infancy. (3) HENRY MEREDITH READ, M.A., M.D., of Philadelphia, born 31st October, 1802, baptized at Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Del., 6th May, 1806. Graduate of Princeton College 1820, and of Pennsylvania University 1823. Died unmarried 16th March, 1826, at Carbondale, Pa. Buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. (4) MARGARET MEREDITH (1), born 6th May, 1800, died 1802. (5) MARGARET MEREDITH (2), born 7th April, 1806, at Philadelphia, baptized at Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Del., 6th May following. Died unmarried 13th March, 1854, at Trenton, N.J.; buried 24th May, 1854, at Christ Church, Philadelphia. We now come to the Hon. JOHN MEREDITH READ, LL.D., eldest son of the Hon. John Read, who like his grandfather, "the Signer," will ever occupy a prominent place in the history of the U.S. This great statesman and jurist was born in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 21st July, 1797, and baptized at Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Del., 23rd June, 1799. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1812, was called to the Bar in 1818, elected to the Pa. Legislature 1822-3, and afterwards was appointed City Solicitor, and member of the Select Council. He was appointed further in 1837 U.S. District Attorney for East Pennsylvania, which office he held for eight years. He then became Solicitor General of the U.S. Treasury Department, and Attorney General of Pa. He gained the first of a series of Republican successes in 1858 by his election as Judge of the Supreme Court, and was named candidate for the Presidency of the U.S., but withdrew in favour of Abraham Lincoln. To his initiative was due the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act during the great Civil War. His name is identified with many national statutes, and he contributed largely to the constitutions of Pa. and New Jersey. Portraits of this illustrious citizen, one of the chief liberators of the negro, hang in the Supreme Court Room and in Masonic Hall, Phila. It should be added that at the zenith of his career he declined the office of Chief Justice of the U.S., and remained Chief Justice of Pa. until 1873. On the 29th November of the following year he died in Philadelphia, at. 77, and was buried 3rd December at Christ Church. Letters Test. granted 7th December, 1874, to the Hon. W. H. Rawle, and General John Meredith Read his heir. At the time of his death he was Grand Master of Masons of Pennsylvania. To this grand American, Charles Reade paid a tribute, of · which the following is an excerpt : A RECORD OF THE REDES. 115

In the Graphic, 6th March, 1875, he wrote thus:-" John Meredith Read, lat{; Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, closed a remarkable career on 29th November, 1874. He was called to the Bar in 1818, and was for many years a leading counsel. In that character his name is connected with leading cases, one of which earned him an European reputation. About the year 1850, one Hanway, having defended fugitive slaves from capture, was indicted for treason. Hanway retained Mr. Read, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, and Mr. J. J. Lewis. The evidence was strong, the peril great. Mr. Read was leader, and his defence, famous to this day, appears to have surprised both friend and foe. Instead of grappling with the facts, and courting defeat, he fell upon the indictment with such a mass of learning and logic as literally crushed it. He showed examples innumerable, and reasons invincible, that Hanway had not levied war in any legal sense against the United States, although he had violated a State law, and that, therefore, he must be acquitted under an indictment charging treason. Mr. Stevens said, ' It is not possible to add anything to this defence,' and the prisoner, whose case had been considered almost hopeless, was immediately acquitted. In 1858 Mr. Read was elected a judge of the Supreme Court, and a few years before his death Chief Justice ( of Pa.). In this character he did the best service to his country and to mankind. He was profoundly versed in European, as in American law, and being not a mere judge but a jurist too, he has left behind him a number of decisions, contained in 41 volumes of reports, of the greatest value to lawyers, both in England and America. Judges mingle more in politics in the United States than in England, and Mr. Read, who on one occasion was on the point of being nominated for the Presidency, was all his life a strong opponent of slavery, and an earnest upholder of the Union." The Hon. John Meredith Read, LL.D., married as his first wife, Priscilla, daughter of Hon. Josiah Marshall, of Boston, Mass., by Priscilla Waterman, a descendant of one of the Pilgrim Fathers.* She was born 19th December, 1808, married 20th March, 1828. Her

*MAYFLOWER DESCENT FROM GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD. Governor WILLIAM BRADFORD (1588-1657), son of Willia:11 (buried 1591),,2ndly ALICE CARPENTER son of William of Osterfield (living 1575>, came to Plymouth m the Mayflower, I (d. 1670). 1620. First Governor of Plymouth Colony, I Major WILLIAM BRADFORD (1624-1704).iALICE RICHARDS. I Major JOHN BRADFORD (1655-1756).iMERCY WARREN,

MERCY BRAbFoRD.,JONATHAN FREEMAN, Esq., grandson of Mr. Edmund Freeman of Devonshire, Eng, I (1590-1682). 1---- MERCY FREEMAN,,THOMAS WATERMAN, Esq, (1707-1789). I I Hon. FREEMAN WATERMAN (1748-1833),=rJoANNA ADAMS THOMSON, great-granddaughter of Lieut, I John Thomson (1606-1696). 1------~ PRISCILLA WATERMAN (1782-186o)=r=Hon. JOSIAH MARSHALL of Boston (1773-1841). I PRISCILLA JARSHALL, 4th daughter (1808-1841),Chief Justice JOHN MEREDITH READ (1797-1874),

I General JOHN MEREDITH READ (1837-1896).=pDELPHINE MARIE PUMPELLY, whose eldest son is I I Major HARMON PUMPELLY READ. II6 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

father was 8th in descent from one of Cromwell's officers, promoted for gallantry at Marston Moor and Naseby. Mr. Marshall was originator of the gigantic plans on the North-west Coast of America eventually carried out by Mr. John Jacob Astor. His home at Cambridge, once Washington's head-quarters, became also the home of H. W. Longfellow. Mrs. J. M. Read died at Philadelphia, 18th April, 1841, and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. Of her sisters, Emily married the Hon. William Foster Otis, of Boston; Charlotte married Commodore Horatio Bridge, U.S.N., who died 18th March, 1893 ; Marion married Mr. John George Holbrooke, of Pennsylvania, while the fourth sister was the wife of the Rev. Dr. Marshall Woods, President of the Universities of Transylvania and of Alabama.

.ARMS OF MARSHALL.-Sa. three bars arg., a canton or. Crest.-Out of a ducal coronet a stag's head all or. In 1855 the Hon. J.M. Read took for a second wife, Amelia, daughter of Edward, and sister of the Hon. J. R. Thomson, U.S. Senator for New Jersey. She died 14th September, 1886, a:t. 75, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, s.p. By his first wife, with his heir, of whom presently, he had four daughter-(1) EMILY MARSHALL READ, born 5th January, 1829, married 13th June, 1849, W. H. Hyde, of Florence, who married as his second wife a cousin of Madame Waddington, wife of the French Premier, and died 1896. She died 20th April, 18 54, in New York, leaving a daughter Emma, born 1852, died at Rome 1880, who married 1878 at Florence, the Hon. George W. Wurts, U.S. Charge d'Affaires. (2) MARY, born 1830, died 1831. (3) MARY, born 1831, died 1833. (4) PRISCILLA, born 1833, died 1835.

The heir of Chief Justice Read was General JOHN MEREDITH READ (vide preface to this Vol.), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece, member of the American Philosophical Society, F.S.A., F.R.H.S., M.R.I.A., F.R.G.S. Born in Washington Square, Philadelphia, 21st February, 1837, he was baptized at St. James's Church in that City, graduated M.A. in the Brown University, 1858, and LL.B. Albany Law School, 1859; studied International Law in Europe, and was duly called to the bar at Philadelphia, but removed to Albany, N.Y. At 18 he was Captain of a Company of National Cadets, at 20 Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Rhode Island with the rank of Colonel, at 23 Adjutant General of the State of New York with rank of Brigadier General. Chairman of the Government Commission which welcomed President Lincoln at Buffalo, February, 1861; and Chairman of a Committee of Three to draft a bill appropriating three , million dollars for the purchase of arms, &c. He received the thanks of the U.S. War Department for organization, equipment, and transportation of troops during the War of Secession. Appointed 1869 by President Grant the first U.S. Consul General for France and Algeria (to reside in Paris). He was also Consul General for Germany during the Franco-German War, including both the Siege and Commune, remaining at his post until peace and order were restored. For these pre-eminent services to humanity and for conspicuous courage he was accorded the thanks of the President of the U.S. in his annual message to Congress, as well as of the French and German Governments. As a further recognition he was appointed 7th November, 1873, U.S. Minister at the Court of Athens, and his term of office embraced the 18 months of the crisis in Greek affairs. He secured the release of the American ship Armenia, and obtained a revocation of the order prohibiting the sale and circulation of the Bible in Greece. He resigned in 1879, devoting nevertheless the next two years of his life to the Greek Cause. In 1881 he had been created Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer by H.M. King George, the highest honour in the gift of the Greek Crown. President of the American Social Science Congress at Albany, N.Y., 1868, and Vice-President of the British Congress at Plymouth · 1872; one of the original trustees of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (founded 1865); and at the time of his death a Vice-President of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris G~~~ERAL JOH::{ MEREDITH READ, F.S.A., Knight of the Order of the Holy HeJeen1er uf Grecee. Ambassador, U.S.A., to the Court of Athens. (1837-00).

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Member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the Order of the Cincinnati, of the Society of the Sons of the Revolut10n of New York, and of many others; also an honorary member of a great number of learned bodies in Europe and America. Received the 32nd Degree in Masonry' in America, and from Greece the 33rd and highest degree, and was named an honorary member of the Supreme Council in the latter country. He was the author of numerous works on various subjects, and especially on genealogy, of which he was an enthusiastic student (vide the publications of the American Historical Association for a partial list). His "Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson" (Albany 1866) first threw light upon the origin of that navigator, and the sources of the ideas that guided him in his search for the N. W. Passage. A posthumous work from his pen entitled, " Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne, and Savoy, from Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau, and Gibbon," has lately been published. After a brilliant and useful career this eminent man died in later middle life, 27th December, 1896, at his residence in the Rue La Boetie, Paris, and was buried in the Read vault at Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Seine-et-Oise). ( Vzde Appleton's Cyclopcedia ef American Biography, vol. v. ; Dr. Scharf's History ef Delaware, vol. i. ; Allibone's Dictionary ef Authors; National Cyclopmdia ef American Biography.) He married 7th April, 1859, at Albany, Delphine Marie, younger of the co-heiresses of Harmon Pumpelly, Esq., of Albany,N.Y., by Delphine Marie, daughter of the Hon. J. R. Drake, Member of Congress for Owego, Tioga County, N. Y. This lady was present with her husband during the Siege and Commune at Paris, 1870-7 1. The Pumpelly family was seated at Spoletto in the middle ages, removing later to Avignon, whence Jean de Pompilli (a Huguenot) migrated, circa I 700, to the American Colonies. He married the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Glover of Plymouth, Mass., and was the father of John Pumpelly, born r727, died 1820 at. 93, who served with distinction in the Indian and French Wars, and was with General Wolfe when he fell in 17 59. By his wife Mary Bushnell, he had four sons, the youngest being Harmon Pumpelly, Esq., born 5th August, 1794, who, at his death 28th September, 1882, at. 88, left two daughters-Mrs. Adeline P. Kidd, widow ofthe late James Kidd, Esq., of Albany, N.Y.; and Mrs. Meredith Read.

The PUMPELLY arms are :-Az. a chief or, charged with an eagle displayed sa., a pile arg. issuing from the chief reaohing to the sides of the shield and extending to the base, surmounted by a pale gu,, charged with a fleur de lys of the fourth, all between two roses also arg. Crest.-On waves a ship proper.

By this lady, who has survived him, General John Meredith Read had issue:-

(1) Major HARMON PUMPELLY READ, F.R.G.S., of Albany, N.Y., Inspector of the 3rd Brigade of the National Guard of N.Y. State, with rank of Major. Born at Albany 13th July, 1860, baptized there. Educated at Paris, Athens, and Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Member of the Hist. Societies of Pa. aud N.Y., and Fellow of the Geographical Society of Paris. President of the Young Men's Association of Albany. Vice­ Chairman of the Committee at Albany which received the Duke of Veragua, lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus, in 1893. He married 24th August, 1889, Catherine Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Frederic de Carron d' Allondans, a descendant in the direct line of J ehan Carron de Carron, Escuyer (son of Jean, seigneur of St. Germain de Roussillon en Bugey in 1539, son of Antoine Carron), a Huguenot, who after taking refuge m the Pays de Vaud removed to Verroreille in Franche-Comte.

ARMS OF DE CARRON D'ALLONDANS,-Azure three carrons (carreaux) or.

(2) JOHN MEREDITH READ, born at Albany 27th January, 1869, and baptized there. A member of the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and New York. Colonel of a Regiment of Volunteers raised at Albany in the spring of 1898. II8 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

(3) EMILY MEREDITH READ, born at Albany, married 21st August, 18841 the Hon. Francis Aquila Stout, of New York (a descendant through his mother of the Hon. Gouverneur Morris, U.S. Minister to France 1791-4), senior Vice-President of the American Geographical Society, one of the founders and commissioners of the N.Y. State Survey, President of the Nicaragua Canal Company, a Commissioner to the French Exhibition of 1889, and a Vice-President of the Geographical Congress at Berne 1891 ; who died 18th July, 1892. She married secondly Edwards Spencer, Esq., of New York, and Trewsbury, Cirencester, son of Harvey Spencer, Esq., of New York, by his wife Sophia Matilda (Edwards), granddaughter of Colonel William Edwards, Colonel Commanding the Massachussetts State Artillery in the war of 1812, son of Timothy Edwards, Esq., member of the Massachusetts House of Assembly and of the first Continental Congress, who was the only son of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, President of Princeton College, N.J., one of the most distinguished metaphysicians and divines that America has produced (vide the Encycl. Br#., 9th ed.). The family of Edwards has in each generation rendered eminent services to the State, and is identified with the history of the New England colonies from their first settlement.

(4) MARIE DELPHINE MEREDITH READ, baptized at the American Church, Paris, god-father, Sir Bernard Burke. She married 5th Nov., 1895 Comte Max de Foras, of the Chateau de Marclaz, Haute-Savoie, son and heir of Comte Amedee de Foras, and has issue, a daughter. The family of de Foras, one of the most ancient of the Duchy of Savoy, was established in Genevois in the thirteenth century, removing later to Chablais. Among its many illustrious members were Barie de Foras, Knight of the Collar (afterwards the Annonciade) at its first creation 1362, and Rodolphe de Foras, Commander of Malta (St. John of Jerusalem) 1368-79-lineal ancestors of Comte Amedee, the distinguished gene­ alogist, of the Chateau de Thuyset, Knight of Malta and Commander of SS. Maurice et Lazare, formerly Grand Marshal at the Court of the Prince of Bulgaria; and of his son (by his wife Marie Georgette de Chanay) Comte Maximilien Louis Marie de Foras, Knight of SS. Maurice et Lazare. ( Vide a complete record from the earliest period in the Armorial Nobiliai're de l' A ncien Duche de Savoie.)

ARMS OF DE F0RAS.-Or a cross azure. SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER.

1. THE WELSH READES.

JT will be remembered that when Sir John Reade of Brocket Hall accepted a fresh patent of baronetcy from Oliver Cromwell he discarded the coat of arms grantei to his grandfather Thomas (2) Reade of Barton Court and adopted that of the Welsh Reades, viz.-az. a griffin segreant or. Inasmuch as his great-grandfather Thomas (I) Reade, or Rede, of Barton Court was returned as armiger, it is possible that he was reverting to a more ancient coat, and that the Redes of Barton Court are an offshoot of the Welsh Reades, on the other hand he might have acted from caprice or have been misled. The Welsh Reades were apparently Celtic, and Reade may have been a variant of the Welsh Rhudd or Rhydd ; vide Notes and Queries, 8th October, 1898. Thomas Reade of by his marriage with one of the co-heiresses of Thomas de la Roche (gu. 3 roches naiant arg.) acquired Roche Castle. His son John had a son William, living in 1430, who married Jane, daughter of . Arblasted. Their son, Sir Thomas of Castle Moyle and Castle Roche, married Catherine Butler (az. 3 covered cups or, 2 and I). Their eldest son, Richard (temp. Ed. 4) = Elizabeth, or Eleanor, Winter, daughter of the Lord of Maynorgayng, co, Carmarthen, whose second son John, by his wife Johanne Carrant, had a son Thomas Reade (heir male to Sir Thomas Reade of Roche Castle and Castle Moyle), who= Elizabeth, daughter of John Anne, and by her had William of Bodington, co, Gloucester, who married (I) Margery, daughter and co-heiress of the Barony of Beauchamp of Powyke, with sisters who married . . . Lygon and Lord Willoughby de Broke, and by her had Richard of Bodington, living in 1515, who married Jane, daughter of Serjeant Rudhall, and by her with seven other sons, and three daughters had (I) Sir John of Bodington (will 1570), who left an only child Dorothea, wife of Lord St. John of Bletso, (2) Gabraell of Broomshi!I Castle, co. Hereford, who by his marriage with Milborow, daughter of Thomas Clinton, left with three daughters a son, the Worshipful William Reade of Broomshill, vide infra. William Reade of Bodington on the decease of Margery Beauchamp married Anna, sister of Sir Giles Bruges, and by her had (with daughters who married respectively-Cassye, Higford, and Vaughan), a son, William of The Wenyerde, Tewkesbury (will 1557), who, by Catherine, daughter of Richard Rawdon, had (with a daughter who= H. Chatterton, and another daughter who= (1) Silvester Danvers, (2) Sir Richard Berkeley), a son, the Worshipful Giles Reade of Mitton (will 16II), This gentleman=Catherine, daughter of Sir Foulk Grevill of Beauchamp's Court,co. Warwick, and by her had (I) John of Mitton, who by his marriage with Jane, daughter of Sir George Huntley of Frocester, had a daughter, Eleanor, who married her cousin Richard Reade of Broomshill, son of the Worshipful William Reade (vide supra); of him presently, (2) Edward, (3) Foulk (will 1657) of Walton Cardyffe, (4) Richard of Gubberhill, co. Gloucester (will 1659), (5) Catherine, foundress of Breedon Hospital (will undated, admon, 1623 and 1663), (6) Elizabeth =­ Richard Brente, Reverting to the Worshipful William Reade of Broomshill (will 1632), by Sibill, daughter of John Prior of Woolhope, he had, with three other children, a son, Richard (will 1696), who by his first wife Eleanor (vide supra) had (1) William of Marden (will 1675), buried at Lugwardine, (2) Foulk, s.p., (3) Richard= Mary, daughter of Thomas Savage of Malvern, and had issue Richard, buried in Malvern Abbey, 1698, (4) Elizabeth= G. Bray of Wellington, (5) Catherine= William Dansey of Brinsop, son of William by Lady Douglas Dudley, and had issue William Dansey of Brinsop who= Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Russell, Bart., of Strensham, grandson of Sir Tho?J-as Reade of Barton Court-vide Chapter II. Richard Reade of Broomshill married secondly Anne, daughter of Edward James of Solywell, and by her had Anne = Crompton Mynors. Their daughter, Theodosia Mynors, was living in 1696.

2. THE WELSH READES. (Continued.) CREWE·READ OF LLANDINAM. Richard, son of Sir Thomas Reade (see preceding pedigree), living temp. Ed. 4= Eleanor, heiress of Jenkyns Winter of Maynorgayng, Carmarthen. Their heir, Edward of Maynorgayng=Janet, daughter of Griffith ap Nicholas, and their son= Catherine, daughter of ap Llewellyn Lloyd of Castle Howell (sa. a spearhead between 3 scaling ladders arg. on a chief gu. a castle arg. ). Their son, Rees= as second wife Gladys, heiress of Evan Lloyd of Langwnsor (az. a chev. arg. between 3 cocks), and by her had William of Carmarthen= Elizabeth, daughter of Rees Bowen of Upton (arg, a chev. between 3 birds close sa.). Their 120 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

son David= Lucy, daughter of Maurice Bowen of Llechdonny (arg. a chev. between 3 birds sa.). Their son, Philip of Carmarthen=Lucy, daughter of William Griffith, of L!ansr,ndyrne (arg. 3 bulls' heads caboshed sa. horned or) by Lucy Read, granddaughter of Rees Read by his first wife. Their son, John of Carmarthen = Elizabeth Conway. Their son, William of Carmarthen= Anne, daughter of Alderman Thomas Jones of Carmarthen (az. a chev. between 3 roses slipped or). Their son, John of Maesmawr, Montgomery (will 1727) = Anne, daughter of of Hargrave, Salop (erm. 2 chevronels az., a crescent gu.). Their eldest son, Bagot Read of Chester had a daughter Anne,* born 1722, died 1793, buried at Warmincham, Cheshire, M.I. = Rev. Randulph Crewe, LL.D., Rector of Barthomley, who died 1777. He was son of John Offley of Madely and Crewe, by Anne, sole daughter of John Crewe, whose name and arms he assumed, By her he had three sons, (r) Rev. Offley Crewe= Harriet, daughter of Assheton Smith of Vaynol, Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvon, of him presently, (2) Rev, Randolph Crewe, Rector of Hawarden= Frances, daughter of Sir , 6th Bart., (3) Rev. Charles Crewe, Rector of Lawton. Reverting to Rev. Offiey Crewe, he had (with two daughters who= Rev R. Wedgwood and Sir Thomas Tancred, 6th Bart.) a son, John Offley Crewe-Read of Llandinam and Wern, High Sheriff of Flint, 1839, died 1858, who= Charlotte Prestwood, daughter of Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake, K.C.B.; she died 1865. They had issue, (1) Bagot Offiey Crewe-Read of Llandinam, who died 1862, (2) Offley Malcolm Crewe-Read, of Llandinam, Captain R,N,, who= Charlotte Lucy, daughter of T. M. George, Esq., and had issue the present Offley John Crewe-Read, of Llandinam, Lieut.-Col. of South Wales Borderers, who married Elizabeth Stuarta, daughter of Hon, Edward M. Erskine, C.B., son of the 2nd Earl of Erskine, and has issue. (3) Lieut.-Col. J. C. E. Crewe-Read= Miss Henrietta Clarke, (4) Captain A. W. Crewe-Read, 51st Light Infantry =Helen, daughter of Captain Broughton, R.N., and died 1874, (5) Charlotte= Charles Balfour, Esq., R.A., and died 1846. (Read arms, as in preceding pedigree, with Crewe quarterings. Crest.-An eagle displayed sa,)

3. THE BOARSTAL REDES. John Rede, serjeant-at-law, alleged to be a son of Thomas De Rede, of Morpeth, who flourished early in the 14th Century, by his marriage with Cecilia, daughter of Griffin Marmyon, acquired the manors of Stoke Marmyon and Oheckendon, Oxon. He died 30th May, 1404; she 20th May, 1428. Both lie in Checkendon Church M.I. They had two sons (1) Edmund, (2) William, founder of Boarstal Church, who died in 1473, and may be identical with William Rede, M. P. for Reading, but of this there is no evidence. (Vide next pedigree.) The elder son, Edmund (died 1430), by his marriage with Christina, daughter of Robert James of Wallingford, who acquired the manor of Boars ta 1, by his marriage with Catherine, daughter of Sir Edmund De la Pole, of Boarstal (died 1418), t became Lord of Boarstal by Carnage, i.e., by tenure of the horn of Nigel the Forester. By her he had a son, Sir Edmund Rede, knighted at the coronation of Elizabeth, consort of Edward IV., and a great benefactor to the Church and University of Oxford. He re-built part of Dorchester Abhey, gave Bishop Waynflete the stone wherewith to erect Magdalen College, and assisted the University to build the Divinity School. Sir Edmund was born in 1416, and married (1) Agnes, daughter ot John Cottesmore, of Ipsden, Oxon, and (2) Catherine, daughter of Walter Greene, of Bridgnorth, widow of Nicholas Gaynesforde. By Agnes he had ( l) Alan, who had a son Kenelm-both died vit. patr., (2) William of Boarstal, (3) Thomas,+ parson of and ranger of Bernwode Forest, who had a daughter Anne, (4) John, (S) Sebastian, (6) Jane= Henry ManteD, (7) Catherine, (8) Johanne _ . Wykeham. Sir Edmund died 1489, and his widow, Catherine, 1498. William of Boarstal, who succeeded Sir Edmund, married Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Mantell of Heyford, and by her had (r) Edmund, s.p., (2) Sir William, his successor, (3) Thomas ofBoarstal,11 died 1539, (and had issue (r) Ann_e = Hunteley, (2) Margaret, (3) Elizabeth, (4) Mary, (S) Catherine= James sou of of Thomas Woodforde, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Blount, of Iver, (6) Isabella), (4) John (S) Sebastian, (6) Catherine= Thomas Hales, of Henley, Oxen. '

*Burke states that Anne was da~1ghter of John Read of Llandinam. She is mentioned in the will of her rrrandfather John Read (,727) as daughter of Bagot Read and under ,8 years of age. General Meredith Read's MSS. affirm~ that John Read of Maesmawr had a son John, who died s.p.; and that another John Read of Maesmawr married a daughter of . Jones of Flint. This John may have been brother to Bagot Read, but there is no link. t Nigel the Forester held the manor of Boarstal by Carnage. His son William bore a son, Sir John Fitznigel of Boar~tal (died 1242). His son, Sir John, ~eft Joan Fitzr.iige1,_who married S_ir Jo~n De Handle, who marri~d (2) Maud De Burn~l, Baroness of Holgate. By Joan he had Richard, who died vzt. jatr., leaving with others a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Sir Edmund De Ia Pole. Their daughter, Catherine married Robert James, and their daughter, Christina married Edmund Rede, of Boarstal, t It is a question whether the parson of Chinnor and tbe Ranger of Bernwode Forest are the same individual. It seems more probable that Thomas the Ranger was Thomas of the New Forc:;:st. lj In the :¥ill of this Thomas, William Hyde is mentioned as "my br_other." It appears therefore, either that his sister Cather1ne married Hyde as her second husband, or that he had another sister-name unknown. For the relationship of the Hydes to the Hoos, see Chapter I. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 121

Sir William Rede, of Boarstal-one of the Knights who attended Henry VIII. at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, died ante 1532. He married first, Anne, daughter of Sir John Twyneho, of Bristol, who died in 1551. By her he had issue Anne=::(!) Sir Giles Greville, who died 1528, (2) Sir Adrian Fortescue, (3) Sir Thomas Parry. He married, secondly,_Anne, daughter of Sir William Wantham, or Warha:m, and by her had (1) Thomas, s.p., (2) Edward, s.p., (3) Gyles, Scholar of New Coll., Oxford == Isabella, who administered to his effects in 1557, (4) Leonard of Boarstal =Anne, daughter of John Heron, of Heron, Kent, and had issue Catherine, his heiress, who married Sir Thomas Dynham, and died 1561. Leonard Rede, who died J 532, had also a son John-alleged to be illegitimate-who by his marriage with Isabella, daughter and heiress of Sir William Lane, obtained the manor of Cottesbrooke, Northants, and was ancestor of the Cottesbrooke Read es. Leonard Reade== secondly, Anne, daughter of Alderman Wilford of the City of London, who became later the wife of Thomas Reade of Muswell, Oxon, son of Thomas of the New Forest. By Catherine Rede Sir T. Dynham had a son, John of Boarstal and Muswell, who by Catherine, daughter of Sir Christopher Brome, had a son, Sir John Dynham, who died in 1634, having married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Dormer of Crendon, and (2) Penelope, daughter of Sir R. Waynman, Viscount Waynman. By her he had Mar}', who married (I) Lawrence Banastre, and (2) Stephen Soane. By Lawrence Banastre she had Margaret Banastre of Boarstal, who married William Lewis of the Van, Glamorgan. Arms in Checkendon Church.-Azure three lapwings or.

Arms of Sir William Rede, knighted 17th November, 1501.-Quarterly, I and 4, Azure three pheasants or; 2 and 3, per chevron gu. and arg. three unicorns' heads couped counterchanged. Crest.-A boar passant between two bucks' heads sa.

4. THE LINE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Srn ROBERT REDE, Knt., of Bore Place, Kent, son of William and Johane Rede, who are identified with William and Johane of Boarstal, but have been also linked with the Norwich Redes, was of Buckingham, now Magdalene Coll., Camb., and subsequently Fellow of King's and Founder of the Rede Lecture, Chief Justice 25th April, 1509, Exor. of the will of King Hen. 7 and Guardian of Hen, 8 during his minority== Margaret, daughter of John Alphege, of Bore Place, Kent, and by her had issue (r) Elizabeth, Abbess of Mawling, (2) Bridget= Sir T. Willoughby, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, (3) Dorothy= Edward Wootton, (4) Jane= Serjeant Caryll, (5) Mary== Sir William Barantyne. In a tripartite indenture of 17th September, 1518, Sir Robert's brothers are mentioned, viz., Richard, who died prior to 1518, John, and Thomas. Sir Robert had one son, Robert, who died s.p. In his will, dated 29th December, 1518, he mentions his niece, Agnes Lewkenor, * and her husband; and in the will (1505) of Kateryn Gray, widow, late wife of Richard Lewkenor, senior, she names Sir Robert as her exor. He was a benefactor to King's Coll. and to the University of Cambridge. Arms: (r) Gules, on a bend wavy arg,, 3 shovellers sable, beaked and legged or. (2) A scholarde (shoveller) bendy of six arg. and sable, beaked and legged or.

5. THE REDES OF SHIPDEN, NORFOLK. Roger, son of Richard Rede, of Shipden (will rSth November, 1477) = Catherine • . • (will 24th April, 1485), and had for issue (I) John, Mayor of Norwich (will 1502), who by Johanne, daughter of­ Ludlow, or Lacon (died 1507), had issue, of whom presently; (2) Sir Bartholomew, Goldsmith, Sheriff of London 1497, Lord Mayor 1502 (will November, 1505). His wife Elizabeth!s will was provedJanuary, 1533. (3) Richard of Shipden (will 1479) = Cecilia . . . and left a son John (will 1570); (4) Simon, who left a son, Rauf; (5) William, Goldsmith of London (will 1495), who left issue; (7) Agnes = John Carre. Reverting to the issue of John, Mayor of Norwich, he had (I) William, of whom presently, (2) Rev, Thomas, Rector of Beccles (will 1542), (3) Edward, four times Mayor of Norwich (will 1545). Edward = (1) Elizabeth Lyston, s.p. (2) Izod, daughter of William, aud aunt to Sir Humphrey, Stanley. By her he had John, s.p. ; William, a priest; Peter of Gymmyngham, Knight of the Order of Barbarya (will 1569), who married Anne Duke, widow, daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhasset; Margaret = Robert Cage; Elizabeth --:- Geoffrey Loveday. Edward, the Mayor of Norwich, married, thirdly, Isabel, daughter of •

" It will be remembered that the Scots, of Scots Hali, from whom the Reades of Ipsden descend, were allied to the Lewkenors.-Vide Roya Descent from that line. 122 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Woodlesse of Harwich, and by her had Ursula, This lady had four husbands, viz, (r) Thomas Garveys, (2) Thomas Browne of Attleborough, by whom she had Anne= Sir Edward Croft, of Croft Castle, (3) Sir John Breude, (4) Thomas Col bye. Edward, the Mayor, married, fourthly, Agnes, daughter of . . . Cranmer, and widow of . . . Blackman. The fourth son of John, Msyor of Norwich was Edmond, three times Mayor of Norwich, who left a son Thomas, The fifth son was Roger ; the sixth Clement ; the seventh John, Sheriff of Norwich. Also four daughters. Reverting to William, of Beccles, Suffolk, (the eldest son of John, Mayor of Norwich, by his marriage r538 with Margaret Pooley), he had issue (1) Thomas, of whom anon, (2) William, mercer of London (will 1544) = Anne, daughter of William Farnley, (she= secondly Sir Thomas Gresham). By her he had Sir William Rede of Osterley (r546-r621) = Gertrude, daughter of Sir William Paston, and by her had (r) Sir Thomas Reade of Isleworth, (whom Fuller mistook for THOMAS READE of Barton

Court, vide Chapter 1) 1 who married Mildred, daughter of Sir T. Cecil, Earl of Exeter, (2) Francis = Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas, 6th Lord Burgh of Gainsborough, K,G,, (3) Anne= Sir Michael Stanhope, and by her had issue Jane, who married first Lord Fitzwalter, secondly Sir William Withipoll, (4) Elizabeth = Lord Berkeley. The younger son of William, and brother of Sir William, was Richard, Commissioner of the Court of Requests, who by his marriage with Rotherham, left a son Richard, baptized 1581. William of Beccles also had six daughters. Reverting to Thomas, eldest son of William Rede, he married ( r) Margaret daughter of Nicholas Quynte, s.p,, (2) Ele, daughter of John Goldingham of Belstead, by whom he had with others, John Reade of Weston Hall, M, P. for Guildford I 547, who marrying Ursula, daughter of William Cooke of Linstead (she died 1602), had issue with others Thomas of Weston Hall (will 16r2) = Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Gawdy, and had issue with others, Henry Reade of Weston Hall= Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Garneys, Esq., of Redisham, who had issue with others (including Anne (r616-41) = William Leman) Thomas of Weston (1613-81) = Anna, daughter of Astley Brampton of Blow Norton (died 1747), whose son, Thomas of Weston (died 1714) = Abigail Edgar. Their son Thomas of Weston (1687-1723) = Anne Farr, and had issue Thomas of Weston (died 1766) = Martha Olney. Their son Thomas = Theophila Leman, and by her had (1) Leman Thomas Reade= Anne Bullen, and had William Leman Rede (died 1847); and (2) Sarah Leman Rede= Rev. S. Lovick Cooper, who left with others (r) Robert Cooper Rede of Ashmans, Norfolk, Esq,, and (2) Maria Susanna= Henry Loftus Reade, of Rathbeg, co. Tipperary. Arms : Azure, on a bend wavy or three Cornish choughs sable, within a bordure engrailed argent, charged with a torteaux and a hurt alternately.

6. READE OF WRANGLE. John Reed or Reade of Wrangle, merchant of the Staple of Calais, will proved 10th November, 1503, had with others Richard* (will 1532)= Agnes Hanbye, and by her had with others, SirGafra Reade, parson, of Benyngton; John of Boston (will 1552), who= Elizabeth Hargrave, and by her had with others William, born 1540, whose son, Sir John Reade of Wrangle (will 1626) = Anne, daughter of Sir John Garrard, and by her had, with five daughte1·s, Thomas of Wrangle, who= Bridget, daughter of Sir Charles Crofts of Bardwell. Their son, Sir Charles Crofts Reade of Bardwell= Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Hewitt of Pishiobury, and sister of Viscount Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, temp. Geo. I. Their son, Charles Crotts Reade, had a son of the same name, will dated 23rd April, 1747, who dying s.p., the direct line of Reades of Wrangle expired Arms of Reade ofWrangle : Gu. on a bend argent, three shovellers sable. Vide infra Arms of Reade of Rossenarra.

7 READE OF FACCOMBE.t

ANCESTORS OF WASHINGTON. Sir Richard Reade in 1546 purchased the manor of Linkenholt, Rants, of Lord Wriothesley. In 1585 the said manor was conveyed by John Englishe to Andrew Reade, Esq., ofFaccombe, Rants (will proved 1623), who= . . . Cooke, and by her had (1) Henry of Faccombe = Anne, daughter o:I' Sir Thomas Windebank, Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth and James I., by Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Dymock of Scrivelsby, hereditary King's Champion. She died 1624, and is buried by her husband, who died 1647, in Faccombe Church, M.I. He left two sons and three daughters. (2) Robert of Linkenholt = 1600 Mildred Windebank, and by her had (1) Andrew Reade, D.D., of Lurgershall, Wilts, (2) William, (3) Thomas, born 1606, admitted Scholar of New Coll., Oxford, 1624, Fellow 1626, Principal

• This Richard is mentioned as his "cousin" in the will of Sir Robert Reade, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. t For these details I am indebted to an article of General Meredith Read in the A tltenamm, 24th March, 1894. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 123

of Magd. Hall 1643, resigned his Fellowship 1645, and fought on the Royalist side 1642, was ordained priest in the Roman Church, died 1669; (4) Robert; (5) George, emigrated to Virginia 1637 = Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Nicholas Martian, and by her had with four sons, Mildred = Col. Augustine Warner, whose elder daughter Mildred= Lawrence Washington, by whom she had Augustine, father of General George Washington. Reverting to the sons of Andrew Reade of Faccombe, the third son was George. the fourth John, born 1579, admitted Scholar of New College, Oxford, in the place of George Risley 4th February, 1598. The fifth son was Andrew, who administered to his father's effects.

READE OF BLACKWOOD. In 1595 Thomas Reade* purchased lands of John Wynnington at Blackwood, Staffs. His son, name not traced, married Dorothy . . will dated 1678, proved 1684. She left as issue William Reade of The Fields, Horton (1641- -1718), of whom presently ; John, Thomas, Dorothy= 12th August, 1665, Thomas Crompton. The eldest son, William (1641-1718) = Margaret, daughter of Richard Dudley, Esq., of Blackwood Hill, and by her had (1) Thomas Reade of Blackwood Hall, born 30th August, 1671, died at Baddiley, Cheshire, 19th March, 1736. By Sarah Godwin, of Dunwood-buried at Baddiley 24th January, 1763-he had William of Blackwood Hall and Baddiley, born 15th November, 1702, who by Sarah, his first wife, had Thomas, born 12th February, 1734, and by his second, Prudence Turner­ buried at Baddiley 17th June, 1804, a:t. 84-William, George, Rev. John, B.A., Incumbent of Onecote, Richard, James of Nantwich, Charles, Prudence. William Reade's next brother, Thomas ol Woodcote, Baddiley, born 27th January, 1706, died 28th August, 1792, by his wife Hannah-died 14th October, 1799, a:!. 90-had (1) Thomas of Meer House (who by his wife Mary-died 5th November, 1802, a:t. 53-had issue Thomas, baptized 5th September, 1770); (2) William, baptized 15th September, 1749; (3) John, baptized 9th November, 1746; (4) Mary, buried 13th February, 1736. The next brother (3) John, born 17th September, 1709, of Barbridge, Nantwich-died 16th January, 1777-by his wife Ann, daughter of Nicholas Holbrook, of Calveley, who died 2nd April, 1796, at. 72, had (1) James of Market Drayton, who married Ann, daughter of William Steadman, of Soho, by Johanna Russell, a descendant, as is alleged, of the Earls of Bedford. By her he had (1) John of Market Drayton and Stoke, born 30th November, 1791, from whom descends Thoma,s Reade, Esq., of Tettenhall Wood, vide infra; (2) , of , born 4th March, 1794, died 27th July, 1867. He married 3rd March, 1825, Mary, daughter of Thomas Mellard, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, whose sister = Thomas S. Mulock, and was mother of Dinah Maria Mulock, the novelist. Mr. W. J. Reade left issue (r) William Mellard Reade, of Longfield, born 5th June, 1827 = 16th April, 1868, Jane, third daughter of George Jones, Esg., of Houghton Tower, Lane., and had issue (1) Paul Mellard, born 19th November, 1673; (2) Philip M., born 1st December, 1876; (3) Mary Louise, born 18th October, 1878. The second son of William James Reade, by Mary Mellard, is Thomas Mellard Reade, C.E., F.G.S., F.I.B.A., of Blundellsands, born 27th May, 1832 = 19th May, 1868, Emma Eliza, younger daughter of W. T. Fox, Esq., of Birkenhead-born 3rd November, 1833, died 22nd April, 1894. By her he had (r) Mellard Treleaven Reade, born 23rd March, 1867; (2) Thomas Fox Reade, born 6th February, 1871; (3) William Russell Reade, born 6th January, 1874. (4) Aleyn Lyell Reade, born 23rd April, 1876; (5) Mary Reade, born 22nd December, 1868. Elizabeth, only daughter of William James Reade, born 23rd May, 1829 = 9th May, 1855, William Julius Lee, Esq., of Liverpool, and has issue. Reverting to the issue of Thomas Reade of Blackwood Hall by Sarah Godwin, the fourth son, Richard, born 31st December, r7u, by his wife Sarah had William Reade (1747-1794), Doctor in Medicine, of Congleton, who married secondly, Hannah, daughter of Barnabas Lowe, Esq. By his first wife he had issue (I) Wm, R. N., born 1773, blown up at sea 1796; (2) George, died 184o=daughtert of Rev. Belby, Vicar of Flixton; (3) Elizabeth=Dr. Kent. By Hannah Lowe he had one son, viz., Colonel Sir Thos. Reade, K.C.B., (in charge of Napoleon at St. Helena under Sir Hudson Lowe), afterwards Consul-General at Tunis, born 1783, died at Tunis 29th July, 1849, leaving issue, by Agnes, daughter of Richard Clagg, Esq., (1) Richard, Consul at Corfu, born 15th July, 1825, died 14th August, 1895; (2) Thomas Fellowes, Consul at Tunis, deceased; (3) John, born 1836, deceased; (4) George William, born 1838, deceased; (5) Peter, born 1842, deceased; (6) Margaret, born 1827 = Hy. Carlton, M.D., Mogador, deceased; (7) Agnes, born 1830,

*There were members of the family resident in Blackwood and Horton of earlier date; e.g., in 1484, John Reed (sic.) was one of nine appointed to settle the ownership of the seats in Horton Church. Roger Reede (sic.) of Blackwood (will dated I3th October, I558) left issue William, Thomas, Richard, Marjory Margaret. Again, Thomas Read (sic.) of Blackwood died I607. tThis lady s mother was an Isherwood of Marple Hall, and the descendant of Bradshaw, the regicide. 124 A RECORD OF THE REDE~ deceased; (8) Frances, born II th October, 1832; (9) Mary, born 28th July, 1834= (1863) Sir Wm, Kirby Mackenzie Green, K.C.M.G., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Morocco, born 1836, deceased. Lady Green has two sons, and one daughter. (IO) Elizabeth, born 1840, deceased.

The fifth son of Thomas Reade by Sarah Godwin was Rev. George Reade, M.A. (1715--96), Incumbent of Peover 50 years, and Rector of Baddiley, 37 years, who by Sarah Smith, of The Water Houses (1725-77), had, with a daughter Sarah (1758-83); (r) George, born 17th January, 1760, J.P., and thrice Mayor of Congleton =Frances, widow of Richard Martin, Esq., and daughter of John Fielder, Esq., of Bath. By her he had (i) Charles of whom presently, (2) John Fielder=Mary, daughter of Richard Clagg, Esq., of Platt Hall, Manchester (and had issue,John Fielder, Richard, George Allan of Dunedin, New Zealand, Rev. Charles !James, M.A., The Limes, Leamington, Margaret Frances) = W. C. Firmstone, Esq., of Wordsley (issue Rev. E, Reade Firmstone, Vicar of Kilpeck), Mary Elizabeth, ob. s.p. Jane= Rev. T. Langhorne of Leamington, late of , Oxford; Maria, Georgina=]. F. Solly, Esq., of Congleton (issue George, Charles, and Arthur John); (3) Thomas, 0b. s.p., (4) James= Miss Barlow (and has issue), (Sl William= Miss Maria Clulow (and has issue). (6) Jane= Rev. C. B. Hodges, (7) Maria, (8) Isabella. The eldest son, Charles= Miss Eleanor Chorley, and has issue, ( 1) John Chorley, who left issue by his first wife two daughters, and by his second, Miss M. Davis, one daughter, (2) George, ob. s.p., (3) Charles W., ob. s.p., (4), Ellen Chorley=J. F. Hall, and had issue, (5) Thomas Septimus, ob. s.p., (6) Alexander Crigan, ob. s.p., (7) Mary, (8) James Edward, ob. s.p., (9) Henry.

The younger son of George Reade by Sarah Smith was William Smith Reade (1763-1836), who by Sarah, sister of the above-named Richud Martin, had issue, with a son who died s.p. and three daughters, George (1797-1865) = Elizabeth Swetenham of Somerford Booths (1804-65), and had issue, (1) George William (1828-83) = (1) Alice Askew, (2) Emily Smith, (3) Anne Whitley, by whom he had George, born 1871, B.A., LL.B.=9th August, 1898, H. G. Garside, and two daughters, deceased, (2) Elizabeth (1829-6), (3) Arthur Lloyd, born 1831 =Jessie Fairbank, and has issue three sons and two daughters, (4) Edmund (1832-33), (5) Fanny Rose (1836-79) = G. J. M, Ridehalgh, (6) Henry Lister of Congleton, born 21st December, 1835 = 5th May, 1868, Miss Anne Ellen Dove, and has Ellen Elizabeth, born 2nd March, 1869, George Percy (1870-90), Henry Lister, born 3rd July, 1870, William Parsons, born 24th September, 1874, Mr. Henry Lister Reade is steward of the Manor of Horton, wherein lies the hamlet of Blackwood. (7) Isabella (1837-89), (8) Albert Comberbach (1839-81) = Miss Julia Smith, ob, 1893, and by her had Bessie=J. H. Acheson: Albert William; Amy, ob.; Walter; Quinton; Henry Cecil; Frank.

Reverting to John, son of James Reade by Ann Steadman, he was born 30th November, 1791, at Market Drayton, and died 13th May, 1856, having had issue by Anne, daughter of John and Mary Corfield of Ridgewardine, Salop, who died 9th September, 1835, (r) William James, of whom presently. (2) John, born 14th April, 1817; (3) David, born 3rd July, 1818; (4) Thomas, born 28th October, 1820; (S) Hannah, born 5th Jan., 1823; (6) Samuel, born 3rd August, 1827; (7) Margaret,born 28th July, 1834. The eldest son Wm.James, of Sandbach, born 13th May, 1815 = Lydia, daughter ofThos. Taylor, Esq., of Hanley (born I Ith June, 1813), and by her had issue, (1) William James of New York, born 16th August, 1841; (2) Thomas of Tettenhall Wood, born 20th October, 1843, and married (I) Ellen Anne, daughter of William Fleeming, Esq. of Penn Fields, , and by her, who was born 1845, and died 24th December, 1874, had Arthur Fleeming, born 16th December, 1874. Mr. Thomas Reade= (2) Elizabeth Gould, daughter of James Tozer, Esq., of Clapham and Parkstone, born 1860 = 7th October, 1880; and by her has issue, Ellen, born 1881 ; Charles James, born 1882; Thomas Harold, born 1889; Reginald William, born 1891. The third son of William James Reade by Miss Lydia Taylor is Titus of Cooktown, Queensland, born 4th October, 1845. The fourth, Joseph of Crewe, born 16th June, 1850. The fifth, Leonard James of Wolverhampton, born 27th June, 1854. The sixth, John Edmonds of Audlem, born 27th April, 1858. Reverting to the issue of Thomas Reade by Sarah Godwin, they had (besides five sons), two daughters, viz., (I} Mary, born 15th May, 1704 = John, son of Henry Davenport, Esq., of Ball Haye, who died 15th May, 1780, at. 82, and by him had (1) John Davenport, of Ball Haye (died 2nd March, 1786, at. 84) = Hannah, heiress of James Rhodes, of Bradshaw. She died 5th February, 1808, at. 77; (2) Henry Davenport, of Leek, died 1st April, 1781, cet. 47. (3) Sarah, ultimate heiress, born in 1736, ob. 1812 = James Hulme of Tittesworth in 1735, ob. 1813. The other daughter (2) of Thomas Reade by Sarah Godwin was Sarah, born 28th April, 1717 =Joseph Bettiley of Nantwich, and had issue Mary and Sarah. Reverting (see first paragraph of this pedigree) to the issue of William Reade by Margaret Dudley of The Fields, Horton, Richard, t.he second son, had (r) \Villiam of The Fields, Blackwood; (2) Thomas of Congleton and Manchester ; (3) Richard of Congleton, buried I 1th May, 1761, at. 32; (4) John. William Reade also left daughters, viz., Ann =Biddulph, buried 20th December, 1676; Dorothy (I), buried 1st January, 1681 ; Dorothy (2), baptized 26th April, 1683; Ellen of Buglawton (1680-1762 ; Mary== Condli:ffe, and Margaret. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 125

Reverting further to the issue of John Reade of Barbridge by Ann, daughter of Nichola, Holbrook, of Calveley, he had, besides James, already mentioned (1) Charles, Doctor in Medicine (1754-80), who= 4th July, 1775, Mary, daughter of . . . Parry, Esq., of Congleton. She died 23rd February, 1779, leaving an only daughter; (2) John, born 20th April, 1756; (who left issue by . . . Walton, (I) John, (2) Thomas, (3) James, (4) Charles, of whom presently, (5) William George, (6) Samuel, (7) Edward, (8) Mary, (9) Ann. Of the above, Charles left issue, by Sarah Joynson (1805-80), a descendant of Oliver Heywood, the Puritan divine, whose family held the manor of Heywood from temp. Ed. I., (I) Samuel John, now of Reade House, Flixton, born 4th October, 1829 = 3rd September, 1863, Eliza Frances, daughter of Thomas and sister of Sir Bosden Leech (1838-97), issue-Arthur Heywood (1864-67). (2) Charles Edwin -issue six daughters, (3) Eliza Ann, obt. s.p. (4) Thomas James, (5) Sarah Margaret Heywood. The third son of John Reade of Barbridge was Thomas, born 26th February, 1761; (4) William, born 23rd February, 1763; (5) George, born 20th January, 1766; (6) Sarah, born 20th September, 1751 = Samuel Shallcross, Esq., ofCalveley; (7) Ann, born 12th August, 1758.

9. READE OF EATON, CHESHIRE. Thomas Reade of Astbury, born 1641, left issue Richard of Eaton (r692-r776)=Mary Shaw, and by her had (r) Wi!liam (I727-), (2) Johu (1729-), (3) Richard, of whom presently, (4) Thomas, of whom presently. Richard, the third son (1731-64) left surviving issue, Sarah, died 1786; and John Shaw, Mayor of Congleton, 1794, died 1798, cet. 36, buried at Leek. Thomas, the 4th son of Richard of Eaton (1734-78)= Anne, daughter of Robert Bancroft of Mauchester. She died 1805. By her he had (1) Esther Bancroft (1769-1814) = Christopher Smith of Bramhope, Yorks (1767-1846), issue Ann (1791-1827)= William Rhodes, Esq., of Creskeld, Captain 19th Dragoons. Her third son, Francis of Creskeld, assumed the name of Darwin. His daughter, Caroline Esther= Hon. John St. Vincent Saumarez (son of Lord De Saumarez), who died 1846, and is buried at Bramhope, (2) Thomcts Shaw Bancroft Reade (I776-1841), author of "Christian Retirement" and other works= Sarah, daughter of Richard Paley, Esq., of Leeds (died 1825), by whom he had six sons and two daughters; and secondly, Mary, daughter of John , Esq., ot Oulton Hall, by whom he left no issue. (1) The eldest son, Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade attained scientific eminence. Born in r8or, he was scholar of Caius, Cambridge, M.A., r 829. He held the benefices of Harrow Weald, Stone and Ellesborough, Bucks, and Bishopsbourne, Kent. F. R.S., 1838. President of the Microscopical Society. His claims as a discoverer were recognised by Sir David Brewster and others. He died 1870, having= Charlotte D., sister of Professor Farish of Cambridge by whom he left no surviving issue. (2) Richard (born 1802), B.A., Caius College, 1826, Rector of Ronaldkirk, Durham, and of Bark­ stone, Notts = Mary, daughter of R. Cobbe, Esq., by whom he had issue (I) Francis Lilly Neville, 21st Fusileers=Florence Louisa Amelia, daughter of the Hon. Adolphus, F. C. M. Capel, 3rd son of the Earl of Essex (she died 1871), by whom he had issue; (2) Richard Bancroft. (3) Thomas Reade (1804-83), M.R.C.S. =(r) Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Large, Esq,, of Leeds (1805-1838), and by her had (I) Thomas Paley (1832-74), (2) George R., (3) Sarah Eliza (born 1830) =Joseph Baildon, Esq., and has issue. Mr. Thomas Reade= (2) Jessie, daughter of Rev. J. Brown, Vicar of Kirkmichael, Isle of Man, by whom he had issue (r) Joseph. G. E. (born 1844) = Elizabeth Pitman and has issue. (2) William A. (born 1846), (3) Robert G. (born 1854), (4) Richard N. (1859-74), (5) Mary Catharine, (6) Isabella J. (1849-75), (7) Catharine A. (1852-71), (8) Harriet M. = (1) Richard Bancroft Reade, and by him had issue Richard B. , ( 2) Captain Alfred Galsworthy, (4) George Reade of Hutton, Yorks (1813-46)=(1) Melville Barbara Watson, s.p., (2) Mary Augusta, daughter of Duncan Mackintosh, Esq,, by whom he had (1) Joseph Bancroft (born 1874), (2) Arthur Paley (born 1876), (3) Eleanor Melville (born 1873).

10. READE OF THE NEW FOREST. Thomas, the first of the line = Elizabeth Dollinge, of Dorset, and by her had (1) William o, Crendon, Bucks, mentioned in the will of his brother Thomas, 1577, who left Thomas of Long Crendon (under age, 1577), will proved 1605; Joane, who= Keble; Cicely, unmarried in 1577-; (2) Thomas, who = first, Anne, daughter of Sir - Wilford, Alderman of London, and widow of Leonard Rede of Boarstal, to whose effects she administered in January, 1549; and, secondly, Elizabeth, sole executrix to her husband's will, dated 1577, in which he is styled of Lurgeshall, Bucks*; (3) John, twin with Thomas, drowned in "The Mary Rose," temp. Hen. 8 ; and three daughters. ( Vide Rawlinson MS., R. 269, fo. 21 ). Arms of Reade of the New Forest : Azure, three shovellers close or, two and one.

* By Leonard Rede Anne Wilford had a daughter Catherine, who married Thomas Dynham, and thus Boarstal passed the Dynham family. She died 1547, he 156t. 16 126 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

II. READ OF WANBOROUGH AND CROWOOD, WILTS. - Reade of Wanborough, who died before 1605, by his wife Margaret, had-with Thomas (will 1613), William (who had lands in Chadlington, Oxon, 1613), Anthony, and five daughters-a son, Richard twill 1609), who left issue, John and Thomas, both under age, 1609. The elder son, John Read, of Wanborough (will dated 1661) = Jane Phillipps, and by her had with others Henry Read, of Crowood, in Ramsbury, who by his first wife, Johanna Bankes, of Crowood, had with a younger son, Rev. Thomas Read, described in his will, dated 1743, as "the unworthy minister of Langley Burrell, Wilts," and with other issue, a son, Henry of Crowood (born 1667, died 1756), who by Anne Knackstone, of Wanborough, had, with daughters (of whom Johanna (born 1724) married Rev. Edward Goddard, Rector of Cliffe Pipard, whence the late Horatio Nelson Goddard, of Cliffe), a son, Henry of Crowood (died 1786), who= Frances, daughter of Sir Benjamin Truman, Knight, and by her had, with a son, William Truman Read,* Frances= William Villebois t of Chilton Foliot, Wilts, Charlotte= Sir Nelson Rycroft, Bart., and another son, Lieut.-General Henry Read, of Crowood, Colonel of the 1st Life Guards, who=as his second wife Ann Mary, daughter of Sir Archibald Edmondstone, of Duntreath, and, dying 1821, by her had a daughter, Mary Anne =John Richmond Seymour, of Inholmes, Berks. ( Vide Sir Thomas Phillipps' Wiltshire Collections in the British Museum).

12. READE OF ALDERHOLT PARK. George Reade:j: of Marlin, Wilts (1631-1726)= Joan . , , buried at Martin, 1707, M.I., cet. 70. Their son Joseph Reade, born 1672 =Jane Garrett, heiress of Alderholt manor, granted by the crown in 1600 to Sir Anthony Fitzgarrett. Mr. Joseph Reade, married secondly, Martha, daughter of William Westfield, Esq., of the Close, New Sarum. This lady gave the Communion plate to Martin Church. Mr. Joseph Reade died 1754, cet. 82, leaving issue, apparently by his first wife (I) George'I[ (1709-88), of Alderholt Park= Barbara (1707-50), daughter of Peter Rooke, Esq., of Fryern Court, (2) William (1733-1806)=Dorothy, daughter of John Bracher, Esq., of Hatch in Tisbury. She died 1771, and is buried at Martin. George Reade had issue George Garrett of Alderholt (1728-53)= Jane . . died 1755, M.I., and had issue George of Alderholt (1777-1810) who by Mary (died 1806, cet. 37) had George (died in infancy 1800), Reverting to William Reade of Fryern Court, he had issue George of Fryern, who died 1822, cet. 54, leaving by his wife Ann-(died 1842, cet. 70), William John, died 1825, cet. 19. Arms,-A cross bottonee fitchee between 4 fleur de lys.

13. REDE OF NETHER W ALLOPPE, RANTS. Richard Reede, or Rede, of Nether Walloppe (will proved 1555), by Margaret Purdew had with others Sir Richard Rede, of Redebourne, Herts, Chancellor of Ireland 1547, knighted after" his return from Bulloigne," 1544; died 1576, buried at Redebourne. Will dated 1559, proved 1576. He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Tregonell, Knight, and by her had, with a daughter= Alexander Wilgosse, a son Innocent Rede (died before 16o7) = Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliams, Lord Mayor, and had a son Richard mentioned 159r. Arms of Sir Richard Rede : (1) Or, on a cross sable four lions passant of the field; crest, a buffalo's head erased sable, armed, maned and ringed or. (2) Azure, a griffin segreant or; crests, with thii latter coat: (1) an eagle displayed sable, beaked and legged or; (2) a garb vert. eared or, banded gules.

14. READE OR REDE OF SUTTON MANFIELD (ALIAS MANDEVILLE), WILTS. Thomas Reade, of St. John Baptist, Devizes, by his marriage with Joane (sole executrix to will proved 1529) had with others Edward Reade, of Sutton Manfield (will 1570), who by his marriage with Cecilie Barter had, with a daughter, Anne, Robert Reade,IJ of Sutton Manfield, who by his marriage with Anne, daughter of William Jesse, of Chilmarke, had issue Edward of Porton, Wilts (will 1635), and Robert of Wilton (will 1662, wherein he is described as Robert Reade of Rumsey, gent.) He= Alice

"This gentleman left a daughter, Mary Anne, who married Col. Charles Oliphant, of Rossie. t From William Villebois descended the late Sir Francis Sykes, of Basildon, Berks, Bart, t A copyholder under the Bishop of Salisbury. -,r A tablet in Martin Church states that Rev. Thomas Staples, Vicar of Mere, died r7q5 ; and Mrs, Mary Staples, relict of Rev. William Staples, and daughter of John Reade, Esq., whose name is absent from the pedigree, died 1782, 11 Robert Reade is also styled as of Compton Chamberlayne, Wilts. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 127

Hewes, of Wilton, and had (1) John of Bird Lymes, Wilts, who= (I) Anne, daughter of John Clavell of Purbeck; (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Baynton, of New Sarum; (3) Sarah, widow of Bernard• (2) Robert of Stratford under the Castle of Old Sarum, (will 1677), who= Mary, daughter of Joh~ Batchelor, of West Chaulderton, and left issue; (3) Heury of Stratford Toney= Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Hewes of Wilton, and left issue; (4) Charles of Fihelding, Wilts (will 1706, in which he mentions his nephew Charles Rede of Lymington, Hants),= Hester, daughter of , of Ablington; and five daughters. Arms, as given by Fuller: Gules, a saltire between 4 garbs, or, But query?

15. READE OF YATE. William Reade of Y ate, Gloucester, possibly son of William of Sutton Manfield, and nearly related to the Reades of Faccombe= . . . Bailey of Devizes. His son, Edward of Corsham [will, 1635, states that he was of Bath and Faccombe] mentioned in the will of Edward of Porten as "my cousin,"= Anna, daughter of Richard Stephens of Burdrop, and had issue Elizabeth= William, son and heir of Sir George Huntley,* of Frocester, She married (2) John Young by whom she had a son John living in 1635. His descendants, if there be any, are Founder's kin of St. John's College, Oxford,

16. READE OF FOLKESTONE. William Reade of Folkestone = Elizabeth, heir of . , . Menis, and by her had with others William of Folkestone (died 1618) = Rebecca, daughter of Sir Robert Menis, and aunt of Sir Matthew Menis, By her he had (r) Matthew of Folkestone (died r625) = Alice, daughter of Ambrose Ward, and had issue with others a daughter, Elizabeth, living in r659, who married ( r) Mark, nephew of Sir Basil Dixwell, Bart. (creation 18th February, 1627), and had issue Sir Basil Dixwell, of Brome, who= Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Peyton, Bart.; (2) Sir Henry Oxenden of Dean, s.p. (2) John, s.p.; (3) William Reade of Canterbury (admon. granted r62r) = Lucy, daughter of Michael Heneage, and had a son John of Gray's Inn, will proved 1662; (4) Richard of St. Gregory's, London (admon. 1658) = Joan, daughter of William Dale, and had issue, with others, Richard of Whittlesey, who attested his pedigree at the visitation of Cambridge, 1684 == Margaret, daughter of Henry Atkinson of Whittlesey, and had issue four sons and four daughters. Arms, Visitation of Cambridge, r684: Quarterly 1st and 4th, Azure, a griffin segreant, or; 2nd and 3rd, Gules a chevron or and azure, between three leopards' heads cabossed of the 2nd, for Menis. Crest (given in MS. Eng., c. 14, fo. 39, Bodleian Library): A garb or, banded gules.

17. READ OF THE CLOSE, MORPETH. Thomas Read of The Close (died 14r2) = Joan, daughter of Nicholas Turpin. Their son George, of The Close= . . Horsley; their son Gerard= daughter of Fenwick, of Little Harle; their son Clement = Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Turpin; their son Richard = Anne, daughter of John Orde; their son Clement, of The Close, living in r6r5 = Anne, daughter of Gilbert Errington,t of V.'est Denton; their son Gerard, a:t. 28, 16r5 = Anne, daughter of Thomas Metham, of Greenake, York. Clement had four other sons and seven daughters, of whom Dorothy= John Read of Heddon. Arms of Read of The Close: Or, on a chevron between three garbs gules, as many ears of corn argent. 18. REED OF EAST CHIRTON. Ralph Reed, of East Chirton (will dated 18th June, 1636), left lands and coal mines in Northumberland. Witness, Robert Fenwick. Inventory proved by Sir Nicholas Tempest. By his wife Phyllis he left, with Roger of Whitchester, and two daughters, Ralph, exor. of his father's will (will proved 1650, Sir Robert Buchanan, supervisor, Edward Orde a witness)-:- Katherine, daughter of John Salkield, of Roche, and had issue Ralph (entered at Gray's Inn, 31st May, 1656, living 1663), Francis Lodovicke, and Barbary. 19. REEDE OF FENHAM. Sir William Reede, of Fenham, in the Parish of Holie Island (will r604), married as his third wife the Lady Elizabeth, widow of Charles Towers. By letters patent, 1579, he received a grant of the tithes, towns, and fields of Fenwicke, which with his estate irr Berwick, he bequeathed to his son William

* Jane, eldest daughter of Sir George Huntley= John Reade of Mitton.

From the abov~ i~ would seem th3;t the Reades of Faccombe, Sutton M anfield 1 and Martin, all derive from the same stem, also the Reades of G1llmgham, and possibly the Reades of Tormarton, Gloucestershire. t A Gilbert Errington, son of Mark Errington, married Jane Read or N ewborne (r650). His brother Charles married Anne, daughter of Thomas Reede, of Newcastle (will 1656). 128 A RECORD OF THE REDES,

Keymarde, alias Reade, known as Captain Reed, afterwards Sir William Reede of Fenham, co. Palatine of Durham, Knt. The second Sir William (will proved 1618, Sir W. Selbie a supervisor)= first, Dorothy daughter of Sir Cuthbert Collingwood, and secondly, Dame Dorothy (Widrington ?), (will proved 1618), by whom he had two sons and a daughter. By his first marriage he had, with three sons and seven daughters, William of Fenham, who purchased Titlington in 1618, and whose son William of Fenham and Titlington was living 1646. Arms of Reede of Fenham (vide Harl. MS. 2055, fol. 50): Azure, a dragon or, nowed gules. On a chief of the second three fleurs-de-lys of the first.

20. REED OF THE CRAGG AND ELSDON. In Elsdon Church is a monument stating that the Reed pedigree goes back 900 years-a statement copied by Sir Walter Scott in his notes on Rokeby. This pedigree, unfortunately, is non-existent. The first known Reed of The Cragg was Anthony, who died in 1685. His son Thomas, born 1674 = Mary, daughter and co-heir of , of Aydon. He died 1754, leaving a son Thomas, born 1715 = 1748 Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Atkinson of Brampton, and dying in 1774 left with others a son, John Reed of Aydon and Acklington Park= 1770 Diana (17th lineal descendant of Ed. III.), daughter of William Watson, of Newcastle. Dying in 1829 he left with others John Reed, born in 1776 = Elizabeth, daughter of Major Watson of Warkworth. John Reed was succeeded by his youngest son, Stephen of The Cragg (died 1865), = Isabella, daughter of John Barras, Esq., who died in 1887, leaving issue with others Colonel Charles John Reed, C.B., late in command of the Northumberland Artillery, J.P. for Northumberland and Durham, High Sheriff of Durham 1894, born 1820 = 29th April, 1845, Margaret, eldest daughter of George Heppel Ramsay, and had issue. Arms of Reed of The Cragg: Gules, a chevron between three garbs or, Crest: A griffin, or.

21. REED OF THE OLD TOWN (ALDERTON). Clement Red* (sic.), will dated 1555, buried at Elsdon, left sons Thomas, Archibald, Edward, and two daughters. John Reed of The Old Town was living in 1648. Mathew Reed (1651-1755), cet. ro4, had apparently brothers, Nicholas Reed of Elsdon, living in 1702, and John, living in 1733. By Elizabeth (1678-1756) he left Thomas of Shuttleheugh, Mathew, John of Old Town (1719-1800) = Jane, daughter of Nicholas Ridley of Highstead by Mabel, daughter of Cuthbert Robson of Elsdon. She was born 1726, died 1806, leaving issue (1) Mabel (1753-56), (2) Mathew (1754-56), (3) Elizabeth (1757) (4) Thomas (1758-1847)=Mary, daughter of John Ridley of Haughton Strother (1783-1863) by whom he had John (1810-32), Jane (1812-51), Ann Eliza, Hannah (18u-19), Mathew (1821--46), Thomas (1823-25), Thomas (1824-25). (5) Nicholas R. (1759-1824), will 22nd March, 1816. (6) Mathew (1763-1825). (7) Jane (I765-97)=Anthony Dodd, Esq. (8) Mary (1766-79). (9) Hannah (1767-1837). It will be seen therefore that Miss A. E. Reed, the present possessor of the ancient estate of Old Town, is the last of her line. 22. REED OF HEATHPOOL AND HOPPEN. This branch of the Redesdale clan claims to be of Troughen originally. Sir Thomas De Rede ot Redesdale's seal, bearing a chevron between three palms displayed was dug up on the estate of the Earl of Tankerville of Chillingham, and is of the date of circa 1300 A.D. His son, or grandson, Thomas Rede of Troughen is mentioned in the County Records, date 1400, as giving a bond to William De Swinburne, while Sir Humphrey De Lisle exchanged lands with William Rede in 1440, In 1552 the Troughen Redes were reckoned chiefs of the clan. Of the Happen line the firstt on record is George Read of Heathpool, living in 1743. He left George, ot whom presently; Lancelot of Hoppen, died s. p. 1784; William, killed at Guadaloupe; Mary, who dying in 1790 devised the estate of Hoppen to her nephew Thomas. George Reed of Hoppen, the eldest son= Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Werge, Esq., of Norton Castle, and had issue Thomas, of whom presently; Lancelot, Captain H.E.I.S., died s.p, 1836; George died s.p.; William of Heathpool, married with issue; John, died s.p. The eldest son, Thomas of Hoppen =Anne, daughter of Thomas Bell, Esq., of Belford, and by her, who died 1845, had issue George, who

*The will of Clement Red opens thu ; In the name of God, Amen. The 13th day of September, the yere of our Lord God 1555, I Clemet Red of the Hauld tovn sek in my body and hall ofmynd makes my last wall and testyment In manere and foorme followying; fyrst I give my soole to God Almeghty and my body to be bered wt-in my paroche Churche of Elsden wt. my duties thereto belon\;!en. It' I make my son Thomas Rerl and my son Archebald Red my exsekeutors. It' I give to my son Thomas Red all my steden in the hould ovne. And I well that he be gud to hys breder in his steden that he may for goye so Jong as thye and he clothe gre. I' I give to my son Thomas Red, my two daughters. It' I give to my daughter Janet Read 12 ky and oxson and I woll that my son Arche Red be pait, and the rest of rny gudys not legest I give to my sons Thomas and Edward and to my youngest daughter, &c., &c. Exors., Thomas and Archibald, sons, Supervisors, Godwin Red and James Foster. Witnesses, Wm. Hall, Clerk; Clement Colson, "curet" of Elsdon; Thomas Reri, Lord of Trowen; Robert Red of Trowen; Godwin Red of Corsensyd (The Cragg); Peter Red; James Foster of the Clowys Feld [the Close). Inventory "prased" by Thomas Red of Trowen and Roger Red of the Hould Town. t George Beed of Troughen was buried 1698. The sister of this George married . . . Rodham, and her daughter married Alderman Blackett, whose daughter Sarah became wife of Lord Collingwood. A RECORD OF THE RED.ES.

aliened Hoppen; Lancelot=Miss Eleanor Dennis, and had issue William Leighton, died in infancy. Thomas Lancelot, Crow Hall, Denver, born 1818 =(I) Ellen B., daughter of B. N. R. Battye of Almond­ bury, and (2) Catherine, daughter of J. Nunn, Esq,, of Wokingham, by whom he has surviving issue Catherine Isabella=.= Captain Joseph Hayward, and has issue Vera, G. F., and Henry W. J. Lancelot Reed. Mr. J. Lancelot Reed had also two brothers and a sister who left no issue. He is therefore the sole surviving male of his line. Arms of Reed of Heathpool and Hoppen. Or, on a chevron between 3 garbs, gu., as many ears. of reed arg. Crest.-A Demi-griffin or, holding an oak branch proper. Motto.-In Deo omnia.

23. REDE OF RINGSTEAD, NORFOLK, Thomas Rede was settled at Ringstead in the 15th century. In his will, dated 1478, he mentions his sons, John, the elder, John, the younger, William, Richard, and daughters Katherine and Triphania ; also a Thomas Reade, of Southfield, is mentioned in the wills of Thomas Rede, of Felmingham, 1466 ; of John Rede, of Felmingham, 1479, and is exor. of the will of Robert Rede, of Colby. - Reade, of Southfield, descended from the above Thomas, had a son Robert (will proved 1547) = Cicely Palmer, of Ringstead. By her he had (I) Thomas of Ringstead = Bridget Growse, of Crostwike, and by her had Robert of Ringstead, and Burton Lazars. He died 1595, and left a daughter Bridget. (2) Nicholas of Ringstead, living in I 583 = Beatrice White, of London, and had issue three sons and three daughters ; (3) Edward of East Rudham (will proved 1583) = Dorothy Coxford, of Holme-on-Sea, and by her had Thomas, who mentioned the family arms bequeathed him by his father in his will dated 1582; John, William, Henry, Richard, Andrew, Martin, and three daughters; (4) David, (5) John, the elder of Thornha,m, (6) William, (7) Robert, and two daughters. Reverting to Thomas of Ringstead, who married Bridget Growse, their second son, John of Thornham (will 1624), = his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Reade of Ringstead, and by her had with two daughters William of Thornham and Burton Lazars. This latter estate his son William aliened to Edward Pepys in 1656. He had a brother, Robert of Gray's Inn. The third son of Thomas and Bridget was Christopher (will proved 1613), and the fourth son was William of Chosell (will 1624). Of the daughters, Elizabeth= Ossant of Burnham; Katherine = Thomas May, of King's Lynn ; and Cicely= John Meynell of Burnham. Arms of Reade of Ringstead : On a fesse or, three crossbows sable between three birds or, two and one. (They also bore the Norwich-Beccles coat.) Crest a stag's head sable.

24. READ OF WICKFORD, ESSEX. Edmund Read ofWickford left a widow, who married tha notorious Hugh Peters. By her he had (I) William of Birchanger (will proved 1659) == Anne, daughter of Thomas Alleyn, of Braughing, IIerts, by Jane, daughter of Thomas Leventhorpe of Albul'y-a descendant of the Royal House of France through the Beaumonts. By her he had Alleyn of St. 's (will 1679) = Catherine Cuthbert, with three daughters. (2) Colonel Thomas Read, a Parliamentary officer, died 166z, will proved same date, wherein he mentions his property near Salem, New England. Supervisor Sir John Banks, whose daughter Priscilla he had married, and by whom he left male issue. (3) Elizabeth:::: John Winthrop, the younger, first Governor of Connecticut, born 1606. Arms of Read of Essex : Azure, a griffin segreant or, a canton of the last. Arms of Alleyn : Per bend rompu argent and sable, six martlets counterchanged.

25. READE OF MARCHAM, BERKS. Thomas Reade, of Gray's Inn, "Barester,'' had a son Emanuel, who = Margaret, daughter ot Edmund Brome of Halton, Oxon. Their son John, born 1622, is stated by Rawlinson to have been a descendant of the Reades of Roughe, Linc. He was Vicar of Marcham, and by Annie, daughter of Unton Croke, of Marston, Oxon, had Dr. J,ihn Reade, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Bristol (will proved 1714), who married twice, but died s.p, ; Unton Reade, of Gray's Inn (will proved 1690); Thomas, living in 17t2, who left a son, the Rev. Unton Reade, of Shilling Okeford, Dorset (will 1750)::::. Susannah, daughter of Henry Windes, and left issue with others Henry Reade, Commissioner of Taxes, will proved 1762, wherein he mentions "My most noble patron, friend, master and benefactor, Henry Fynes, Earl of Lincoln," to whom he bequeathed £ 500 to be laid out in erecting a building in the gardens at Oatlands Park. Also "as many books from my collection as his lordship may select." Francis, the youngest brother and exor. of Henry Reade, was Clerk in the Custom House (will proved 1763). He, too, left Lord Lincoln a legacy, viz., "A picture in oil of Mr. Pelham" ; his lordship's own picture (portrait) with Lady Lincoln, both painted in crayons by Mr. Hoare. No arms assigned to Reade of Marcham. 17 130 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

26. READ OF UNION PARK.* Colonel Sir John Reade, knighted by Charles I., was beheaded by Cromwell, His wife fled to Ireland and placed her son under the care of the Hamiltons of Killyleagh. Her grandson, Captain John Reade, or Read, (r675-1727)=Rose, daughter of Gawen Hamilton, and granddaughter of Archibald Hamilton, brother to James Viscount Clandeboye and uncle to James Earl of Clanbrassil. Their son, Wiliam Reade, or Read of Union Park, Queen's Co. (1726-73)= Rebecca, daughter of John Moutray of Favour Royal, whose son, James Moutray was M.P. for Augher. Their son, John Moutray Read (1764- 1801)=.= Anne Beresford and by her had (1) William=Fanny, daughter of James Orr, Esq., of Hollywood, Co, Down ( 2) Arthur Hill of whom anon (3) Alexander. Arthur Hill Read= (I) Susan, daughter of Dr. Atkinson, and granddaughter of Colonel Atkinson of Cangort, King's Co., and (2) Rose, granddaughter of J. Rowan Hamilton of Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down. By his first wife he had with others Colonel John Moutray Read, born 1839, who by Edith Ysobel, daughter of Colonel Hugh Johnson and granddaughter of Colonel Moseley, C.B., has (1) Rose Hamilton (2) Beresford Moutray, born 1874 (3) Hugh Moutray, born 1876 (4) Edith A. (5) Ina Ysobel Moutray, born 1884 (6) Anketell Moutray. Colonel Moutray Read is in command of the 3rd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. Arms of Read of Union Park-Gules. A saltire between four garbs or. Crest, a griffin rampant or, winged gules.

27, READE OF WOOD PARK, GALWAY. Richard Reade,t (living in 1598, died 1631) was ancestor of Rev. Philip Reade (stated to have been Chaplain to Randall Marquess of Antrim), whose son Philip was located at Wood Park in 1695. His son, Rev. Philip Reade, D.D., by his marriage with Margaret, daughter of Thomas Featherstonhaugh had William Francis of Wood Park, who had issue with others Philip of Wood Park. He married, 1829, Grace, daughter of J. Rutherfoord, Esq., and by her left Philip W. Villiers Reade of Wood Park= Charlotte, daughter of W. Dupre Alexander, and granddaughter of Sir R. Alexander, Bart. The issue of this marriage was an only daughter, Florence Jane=1887, R. Fiennes, son of Colonel Hibbert of Bucknell, Bicester. Arms-Gu. A chevron or between two fleur de lys in chief of the second, and an eagle displayed 111 base arg. Crest, an arm erect issuing from clouds, the hand holding an open Bible ; all proper. Motto, '' Amor sine timore.,,

28. THE TWO BISHOPS OF CHICHESTER. WILLIAM REDE, REED, or READE, D.D., Fellow of Merton; Provost of Wingham; Archdeacon of Rochester; was promoted to the See of Chichester by papal provision ; consecrated at Avignon. The bull was dated v. Id. Oct. (nth October), 1368, and the temporalities were restored to him 9th Jnne, 1369. Died 18th August, 1385; will dated 1st August, 1382, proved 4th November, 1385. He founded the Library of Merton College, Oxford, and also contributed about IOO vols. to the Libraries of Balliol and New College, Oxford. In August, 1374, he delivered to Mr. Thomas Worth, fellow and proctor of ye scolars of Stapeldon Hall (Exeter Coll.) 20 Ii. for the repair of the Library of the Old Hall, and 25 MSS. to be reposed in that Library. He had a kinsman, M. R. Pestour, living 1400, (Fasti Ecclesiae Angli­ canae; Registrum Collegii E:xoniensis, edited by Mr. Boase of Exeter CoJl. ; Turner's MSS. Oxfa1·dshire, in the Bod!. Library). ROBERT READE, M.A., a Dominican Friar, succeeded by a bull from the Pope, dated 9th September, 1394, to the Bishopric of Waterford and Limerick. Two years later (30th March, 1396) he was translated to Carlisle, and thence October, 1396) to Chichester, where he erected the beautiful stone cross. He died 1415, and was buried there. (Fasti Eccl. Hiber., Vol. i., p. II9; Fasti Eccl. Anglic., Vol. iii., p. 236). He was probably a kinsman of WILLIAM READE of Chichester; Chancellor, 1407 ; Treasurer, 141 I ; Archdeacon 1398 and 1411; Precentor, 1407. (Fasti Eccl. An,elic., Vol. i., p. 270). The exigencies of space preclude a detailed account of the following families : (I) Read of Readsrest, Surrey, descended from James Read, will 1690; (2) Rede ofWenberrie, , descended from Thomas Rede, living in 1620, whose son, Nicholas= Gracia, daughter of Vincent Calmady of Wenberrie. .A.rms­ Gu., on a bend wavy arg. 3 shovellers sa: (3) Reade of Datchet and Chalvey, Bucks, descended from John Reede, or Reade, will 1559, whose eldest son Anthony's will, 1563, was witnessed by Robert Okeham and whose 3rd son, John, together with Richard Hyde, received from the Crown in 1591 the Lease of Riding Court farm. Members of the family appear later at Burnham, Iver and Hillingdon; (4) Rudston­ Read, descended from John Read of York, will 1764. The Rev. Culter Rudston in compliance with the will of William Read of Sand Hutton assumed the additional name of Read; (5) Reade of Malvern and

* Fulc Reade and his son Richard, of Gubberhill, Gloucester, collaterals of the Redes of Castle Moyle and Castle Roche, were leaseholders of lands in the County Down, 9th August, 1625. t Vid, "Ireland in 1598," an ancient Vol., edited and J?Ublished r878 by Rev. E. Hogan, S. J. In April, 163r, James Handcock leased the lands of Dyrconnor, Meath, to Patrick, Richard, and Martin Reade. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 131

Cleobury-Mortimer, descended from Francis of Malvern, will 1646; (6) Reade of Littleton and Tormarton, earliest wills 1631, 1634, 1653; (7) Reade of Marsh and Delahaye, Essex, descended from George Reade, will 1656; arms similar tQ tho:se of the Norwich-Beccles line; (8) Reade of West Bergholt, descended from Thomas Reade, will 1617. This family bore garbs, but argent. (9) Read ol Holbrook and Crowe Hall, descended from James Read, merchant of Bristol, whose son John Reade of Walthamstow, died 1823 :Jc!t. 90 = Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Revell, Esq., of Round Oil,k, Englefield Green. Arms as signed at the Herald's College, 14th April, 1836, by John Reade, Esq., of Holbrook House, "Four birds sable, beaked and legged gules." Crest-" A bird, displayed," But this gentleman's representatives ha Ye adopted the coat of the Reades of Shipton, Brocket, and I psden. -Gu. A saltire between 4 garbs, or. Query? (IO) For the Redes or De Redes of Munden Furnivale, descended from Symon De Rede, who = Johanne, daughter and co-heir of Sir Nicholas Grymbolds, from whom descend the Reades of Barton Court through the Lyttons, vide p. 22-23. Arms-arg. barry of 3 azure (viz. of Herts, 1572); (n) Reade of Ashbury, Berks, alias Perrse-contemporary with Thomas Reade of Barton Court, who died in 1556; (12) Reade of Tingrith, Beds, descended from Alexander Reade of Tingrith, will proved 1655; (13) Reade of Thurnby, descended from Thomas Reade, living in 1618, whose third son, William of Thuruby, is mentioned in the Visitation of London, 1664, and whose grandson, Thomas::::: Elizabeth Thorley of Hole, Worcester, and is the first in the pedigree in the Visitation of Leicester; (14) Reede of Hambledon, Bucks, alias Conere, descending from Edward Reede, alia;; Conere, wi!J dated 1617: whence the Reads of Turvill<;, Bucks, and Warnborough, Oxon; (15) Rede of Boston, Linc, whose wife's will is dated 1485. This line ended with Dyonis, died 1556, who = Francis Guevara, a Spaniard.* (r6) The Reads of Rougham, Norfolk, dating back to John and Ralph, who held lands in Rougham, J 307. Sir John Read, circa, 1370 = Alice De Rougham. His grandaughter, Elizabeth =John Yelverton, and their son was Sil' William Yelverton, K.B., Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1470 (see Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, Yelverton of Easton Mauduit.) (17) Reed of Chipchase Castle, acquired by Archibald Reed of Bellingham from Sir H. Heron in 1727; {r8) Read of Aberdeen, viz,: Thomas Read, Esq., M.A., Secretary to His Majesty King James I. in the Latin tongue, will dated 1624, at" my Lord Brooke's house in Holbome." He bequeathed his library to the College at New Aberdeen ; and his brother, Alexander, Doctor of Medicine, left to the same College £400 which "the Earl of Annandale owes me." There is also a modern family named Reade,t formerly Read, of whom was the late Rev. Frederick Reade, Vicar of St. John's, Hove. This family has contributed several distinguished men to the services of India. They appear to have come from the vVest Indies, and it has been surmised that they may descend from one of the sons of Edward. Reade of Ipsden by his fourth wife, which lady is said to have married a barrister named Bellairs and with him to have emigrated, taking her sons with her. It should be added that the name Le Rede occurs frequently in the Records and Registers of the city of London, and that Agnes Le Rede of Northstoke-the sister parish of Ipsden-is mentioned in Domesday Book. There was circa. 1400, a fu.mily called Vhede in Bucks, as also Leddrede, in short the name is found in most counties. The foregoing represent the principal lines-albeit the catalogue is far from exhaustive.

* The patronymic of the Vicomte de Chabrol of Portug-al is Read. t Surgeon~General Herbert Taylor Reade, C.B., a recipient of the Victoria Cross, a.Ed hon. surgeon to the Queen, son of the late Staff-Surgeon George H·. Reade, fo:merly coMmanding the 3rd Regiment of the Canadb.n ::VIilitia; he was born in September, 18:2?, entered the Army Meclicaf Department in 1850, and. became surgeon irt 1857. During the India'l Mutiny of d57-8 he was actively engaged in the medical cha.rge of the 61st Recriment. The services for which he received the Victoria Cross are thus described :-" During the siege of De:hi, while St1rgeon Reade was attending to the wounded at: the end of one of the streets of the

city1 a ;iarty of rebels f:.dvanced from the direction of the bank, ,x.-1d having establisheL themselves in the houses in the street, commenced firing from r:he roofs. The wounded ,vere thus in great danger, and would have faller:. into the ha:i.ds of the enemy had not he drawn his sword, and calling upon a few soldiers who were near to follow, succeeded under a heavy fire in dis!odging the rebels from their positio~. Surgeon Reade's party consisted of about teu in aU) of whom two were kil:e

He became surgeon-major in 187i 1 briga

THE READES OF ROSSENARRA.

CALLAN, CO., KILKENNY, IRELAND.

[In a footnote to Richard, second son of Sir Thomas Reade of Barton Court (J?· 30), it was stated that there exists a strong probability of this gentleman bein;,; identical with Richard Reade of Modesh1ll, co. Tipperary, the ancestor of the Rossenarra line. During the eighteen months which have elapsed since the first proofs of this work were sent to the press, facts have come to light which seem somewhat to militate against this theory. The case stands thus-Richard as second son, had the ordinary precedent in such cases been followed, should have inherited his mother's estate of Brocket Hall (Vide Minor Incidents in Jke Civil War, Gentleman's. Magazine, Aui;ust, 1897)~ It was conferred on his next brother Sir John, by indenture dated 2nd January, 1639, and Richard being thus disinherited, disappeared. He is mentioned by implication both in this deed of 1639 1 anri also in the law snit between Sir John and his nephew Sir Compton, respecting the manor of Dunstew in 1655 1 and while there has always been a tradition that he and his younger brother Geoffrey, who was also disinherited, settled in Irela11d, a corres­ prmding Irish tradition connects the house of Rossenarra with Barton Court, and the birth of an heir to Rossenarra in 1658, also synchronises with this. Had Richard be.en of unsound mind, or otherwise incapacitated, his decease would have been registered at home. It may be surmised further, that Richard of Modeshill came from England, inasmuch as a deed of his bearing date 1680, relating to the purchase of part of the Rossenarra estate, and almost the first original deed discovered, is endorsed u The English Papers,' 1 as if it had been the outside of a bundle. Prior to 1670, not a certified indenture can be found, and they are plentiful afterwards. Sir Berhard Burke alleged on his visit to Ipsden to inspect the muniments in 1845, that there was consanguinity between the families of Rossenarra and Barton Court. Further evidence of an English descent can be adduced frotn the fact that Richard Reade of Modeshill and Mohubber was residing in England in 1755 at his death, and all further trace of this line in Tipperary here ends. Thus far the data justify the strong probability affirmed in the footnote; on the other hand, while a deed referring to Richard of Modeshill has turned up in Ireland, bearing the arms of the Gore family (a member whereof was a witness}, deeds relating to his son George, th~ founder of Rossenarra, born in 1658, bear arms similar to the Reades of Wrangle and Norwich, and this appears to be tantamount to a claim of George Reade of Rossenarra to kinship with one or other 0f those lines. His motto "utile primo '' however is enigmatical, and may mean that he had discarded the garbs for the sheldrakes 1 just as Sit John of Brocket discarded his paternal coat in favour of that of Breedon. Apart from the present uncertified connection with a definite branch in England, the pedigree and history of Rossenarra are of prime interest,

The following chapter has been contributed by Mr. R. READE MACMULLEN OF DuBLIN, who is now eldest direct male representative in the female line 1 of the Rev. Joseph Reade1 Rector of Kells Priory, co, Kilkenny in 1745-501 son of George Reade, founder, and first domiciliary holder of Rossenarra in 1686, and grandson of Richard Reade of Modeshill, co. Tipperary, the original purchaser in 1670, J

THE faci of the non-existence (except in rare instances and non-applicable here), or destruction of Rural l'arish Registers from 1600 to 17001 during civil commotions in Ireland, renders proof of the junction of Rossenarra with England exceedingly difficult, if not as in so many similar cases almost impossible: clues can only be obtained where wills were registered, or through the fortunate preservation ot ancient indentures relating to the transfer of lands, Tipperary and Kilkenny are the first verified habitations in 1670 of the family afterwards known as Reade of Rossenarra, but the name is met with from the earliest times in Ireland, and has run all the gamut of diversification in style and spelling there as elsewhere ( Vide Registers, family deeds, papers, etc.). The data and history are faithfully recorded here as far as at present discovered; what was before only legendary is verified, and no trouble has been spared to make clear and concise that which was hitherto hearsay, dubious, or altogether unknown. Of this old and influential family in Ireland, in its pristine wealth and circumstance were-

RICHARD READE of the Crimshina, Modeshill (Castle?) Readeshill, Mohubber, Graig, Rosenharley, Ballyvoneene, in the Rarony of Slevardagh and Compsey Co., Tipperary (Indenture dated 20th August, 1670, and 1st September, 1693). His wife's name is still unknown, but he probably married in 1657, into the family of either Sandford, Lowe, Jacob, or Sankey (most likely Sandford) : the said Richard dying in 1693-7. He had purchased the principal Modesh1ll estate from Colonel Hierome Sankey* on the

*Colonel Sankey commanded a Cavalry brigade in the Parliamentary army, and notably distinguished himself with his dismounted men, at the seige of Clonmel Tipperary, during the Civil war A RECORD OF THE REDES. 1 33

20th August, 1670, the first section of Rossenarra lands in the Co. of Kilkenny, being otherwise acquired shortly before on the 26th March, 1670 : both of which will be more fully referred to afterwards. The lands of Ballyvoneene were also demised him by Pierce Butler on the ISt September, 1693, for 99 years, or the lives of three of his children-Jacob, Thomas, and Frances, should they so long live. The issue of the marriage were, as far as at present known, four sons and three daughters, as proved by references in family deeds, indentures, etc.

(1) GEORGE READE (the eldest son and heir, founder of Rossenarra), (transfer endorsement dated 18th August, 1686), who follows:-

(2) , . A son mentioned in Harris' Life oj King William III., Dublin (1749) (marginal reference correspondence, p. 340, Book IX.) as being unfortunately killed in a disturbance regarding the Crimshina district of Tipperary in August, 1691, owing to an order for the cutting down of a coppice, the resort of highwaymen, situated on the Modeshill lands ; young Reade being joined in his demurrage against such ruin of the property by Matthew Jacob and Captain Sankey, who were both landowners in the locality.

(3) JACOB READE of Ballyvoneene, co. Tipperary, who was demised the lands of Jamestown from 1st May, 1703, for 51 years, by Jacob Sankey of Dublin, under indenture dated 7th day of August, 1703, and is the first and only Jacob Reade apparent in the pedigree. He left no will registered in the ordinary course, but it is evident his line became extinct in male heirs, Jacob had however, a descendant Eleanor Jackson (nee Reade} who is more particularly described in the next number.

(4) THOMAS READE of Modeshill, Mohubber, Graig, co. Tipperary= 15th November, 1699, the Lady Elizabeth Stowell (she is styled the Lady Elizabeth in her husband's will dated 28th February, 1737, proved May, 1738). He was interred on the 12th March, 1738, in the north chapel of the Protestant Church ot St. Mary at Callan, co. Kilkenny, beside the tomb of the Gore family. Issue, an only child Richard, who came into possession of Eallyvoneene his uncle Jacob's estate, and-:- Elizabeth Hall of Dublin (marriage settlement under date 12th June, 1722). Issue, two children, Richard and Amelia (Amillia, Emillia, Emily}, Left under the guardianship of a kinsman Mr. Cane (Kane) of Dublin, and under the immediate charge of Mrs. Eleanor Jackson (nee Reade) referred to above, who is mentioned as having a first rent-charge over the Ballyvoneene estate. Richard Reade of Modeshill and Ballyvoneene, the father of Richard and Amelia, left Ireland, and was living in London, where he died in 1755 (will dated 15th July, 1754, proved 5th December, 1755), This is another proof of the English descent. The fate of Amelia and Richard is unknown. A rustic legend hands down that the last heir of this Tipperary family was murdered by a highwayman; but this is most likely only a version of the authenticated circumstance related before. Richard either died immediately after his father in I 755, or remained perhaps in England, and sold the interest, as part at least of the Modeshill property reverted to the Sankey family, and was held quite recently by them. Ballyvoneene appears to have been acquired at the same time ( 1755) by kobert Lowe,* of Mallardstown, co. Kilkenny, and Brookhill, co, Tipperary, and held by him in 1758,

(5) Several Daughters.-One of whom was Frances, another= Mr Stanley, of Comminstown, and left three daughters-Anne, Ruse, and Elizabeth, and yet another, who= Mr. David Lowe, of Fethard, co, Tipperary, who died in 1730, and left issue with other children, Robert Lowe aforesaid, who is also described as of Rossenarra. The Lowe family springing from the Reade alliance are at this period connected by marriage with the Gores, Fulkes, Oldis, and Husons (Hewsons}, There is also a likelihood of the existence of one or more sons to Modeshill, but up to the present no reliable proofs can be adduced, A marriage is also on record between the English Reades, of Dublin, and a Mr. Macmullen at the early period of 1688 (family memoranda, J.M. R. letter, 9th December, 1862). The Tipperary house of Reade being thus presumably extinct, or having returned to England, the history centres on the Kilkenny line, of whom was GEORGE READE, ·eldest son of Richard of Modeshill, and heir and founder of Rossenarra (deed of transfer 18th August, 1686), born 1658, died 3rd September, 1731, High Sheriff of the County of Kilkenny, 1693. Entertained King William III. on the 20th July, 1690, on the march from Kilkenny to Carrick on Suir, on which occasion His Majesty stayed at Rossenarra, and the army encamped on the estate ; the young Duke of Schomberg having been sent forward to secure the town of Clonmel with the Cavalry the same night (Harris' Life oj William III., correspondence and memoranda, p. 281, Book IX .. also family papers, etc.) Presents were made Lo commemorate this event, notably a fine picture of General Rede de Ginkle in armour, one of King William's principal commanders afterwards created Earl of Athlone, (the work of Godfrey Kneller) still preserved in the family. (The name of Rede de Ginkle is a singular coinci­ dence, there being apparently no relationship whatever), A " Memory House " was also erected at

• This Robert Lowe is styled in the will of the foundor of Rossenarra, as his cousin or nephew. 1 34 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Rossenarra, at the end of the magnificent drive called the "King's Avenue," numbers of beautiful lime and chestnut trees lining it on either side. The "Memory'' was only demolished a few years ago, the stone composing it disappearing, as also has that of most of the old mansion. Rossenarra estate was acquired as to its original scope, by Richard of Modeshill, as before stated (Indenture 26th March, 1670), as a heritage for his eldest son and heir George. (Transfer indenture dated 18th August, 1686). The lands were held under the Act of Settlement Charles II. (1669), by Major Andrew Mainwaring (or Mannering), (28th January, 1669), and by Colonel Henry Slade (8th June, 1669), both Cromwell's officers ; sold, or transferred by them to Henry Brinsmeade, and Captain Thomas Sheppeard, who again transferred them to Richard Reade of Modeshill, under dates from 1670 to 1697. These sales, or transfers, were apparently negotiated in Dublin, the dues on some to be paid at Strongbow's tomb, Christchurch. Richard was residing at Modeshill prior to his purchase from Sankey, as that deed, dated 20th August, 1670, describes him as being of Modeshill, as also does the first indenture some months earlier, for the original Rossenarra holding the 26th March, 1670 : both these deeds being identical as to the year. Very probably Richard, having arrived in Ireland about 1639 (the year of his supposed disinheritance), or having came over with Cromwell in 1649, leased lands in Meath, where English Reade settlement had before taken place in 1547, and thence finally settled down at Modeshill and Rossenarra in 1670. The proprietor of the townland proper of Rossenarra in 1641, and the ancient mansion thereon, a residence of the Butler family for ages before the Reades acquired it, was Tibbot (Theobald) Butler, an uncle of the Butlers of Ormonde, who was transplanted thence in March, 1653, with five of his household. (Transplanters Certificates Record Office, Dublin). (Butler Pardons-Fiants Philip and Mary, 1558), George Reade, it may be supposed from certain indications in his will, was at some time in military command, most likely under King William or de Ginkle. From 1700 till his death in 1731, he never ceased acquiring the lands around; in 1703 from James Duke of Ormonde, in 1711 from Henry Duke of Beaufort, in 1722 from James Stopford and very many others, till he owned the entire district around Kilmaganny Village. He married in 1692-4, Ursula Cuffe, aunt of the ISt Lord Desart, and aunt and great-aunt respectively of Martha 2nd Viscountess Blessinton (1709), and Eleanor Viscountess Mountjoy and Countess of Blessinton (revived creation 1745); also cousin of Lord Tyrawley (Playfair), and Coote Earl of Mountrath. Her aunt was Anne Muschamp,= to John Vesey Bishop of Limerick (1673), Archbishop of Tuam (1679); and a cousin Mary, daughter of her uncle, Denny Muschamp, was the wife of Sir Thomas Vesey, Bishop of Killaloe (17n), and Bishop of Ossory (1712), both of which Prelates are the immediate ancestors of the present house of de Vesei. Her uncle, Denny Muschamp, was Muster Master General in Ireland, and=1st Elizabeth Boyle (whose brother was Murrough, created Earl of Blessinton 1673), eldest daughter of the Rt. Rev. Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first cousin once removed of the great Earl of Cork.* Denny= 2nd, in 1685, Frances, youngest daughter of Richard Sackville 5th Earl of Dorset, and widow of Viscount Lanesborough, Chief Secretary of State for Ireland, who died in 1684. He left no issue by his second marriage, and died in 1699, in the enjoyment of the Muschamp Estates, which Lady Lanesborough had purchased from the elder branch. A special grant of the family arms, or, 3 bars gu, was made him at Ulster's Office, Dublin, in 1685, with the addition-On a canton az., a harvest fly displayed, crest on a cannon royal mounted or, a cat a mountain ppr. (Archdall's Peerage; (Cork and Desart); Burke's Peerage (de Vesci); Burke's General Armoury; Genealogists' Guide). Ursula's father was Joseph Cuffe, of Castle Inch,t Inchevolahane, co. Kilkenny, Tenehener, and Tullaghane, and various lands and estates in the county of Cork. Capt. of Cavalry in the Parliamentary Army, who shared in the relief of Cork on 16th October, 1649, with Major Warden, subsequently having command of detachment expeditions all through the county, and receiving large grants of territory as well as pecuniary benefits. (Archdall's Peerage, under Desart). Son of M3urice Cuffe, of Ennis, co. Clare, and of his wife Elizabeth; at twenty years of age he was with his brothers one of the gallant defenders of their Castle of Ballyalla, in the desperate siege during the massacres of 164I, when they Hheltered all Protestant fugitives, in spite of the terrors of overcrowding and famine. ( Contests in Ireland, 1641-1690, Camden Society, edited

* The celebrated monument of this family (whose city residence was where the Town Hall now stands on Cork Hill), the roost striking in the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Dublin, was originally erected on the space where the ancient high altar stood, that is between the chancel and chapel of St. Mary, covering the arch, but it was removed in the reign of Charles 1st to the side of the communion table, and finally, at the Guinness restoration, placed where it now is, on the left-hand side of the main southern entrance, within a few feet of the stone which marks Dean Swift's grave. The tomb is very 1arge, upwards of forty interments being traced therein, situated under the communion table, beside the Loftus Ely vault, which is to the right of it. Over a dozen of Ursula Reade's relatives are here interred. t The ruins of this old residenc~ are still to be seen, situated about two miles S. W. from Kilkenny City, and the ruined church of Castle Inch on the 1ands there, still contains the Captain's tomb, a chaste and beautiful one in good preservation, with the Cuffe arms: arg. on a bend dancettee sa. three fleurs delis of the field, between two plain cotises az., each charged with three bezants, impaling de 11uschamp, or, 3 bars gu. A RECORD OF THE REDES 1 35 by Crofton Croker, London, British Museum). Captain Cuffe died on Christmas Day, 1679, and is buried at Castle Inch. (Archdall's Peerage, etc.). He had married Martha Muschamp, daughter of Colonel Agmondesham Muschamp, Governor of Cork Fort, or Citadel, and his wife Anne. Their nephew John Muschamp of Drumanakelly, co. Down, Ireland,=Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Loftus,* and grand­ daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus of Rathfarnham Castle, co. Dublin, whose relative Sir Robert Loftus was guardian of Sir Edward Denny of Tralee Castle in 1622, whose sister Colonel Agmondesham most probably married.t (Archda!l's Peerage, under Loftus). The Colonel was second son of Sir Agmondesham Muschamp of Roebarnes in Horseley, co. Surrey (whose ancestor William, had married in 1606, Mary, sole heiress of the Agmondeshams of Roebarnes Estate) a branch of the ancient de Muschamp family, settled in the North of England at Barmoor, Northumberland, in Durham, and also at Camberwell, Peckham, Surrey, at which latter place, unfortunately, the Church was destroyed by fire, and the tombs perished with their records, save some brasses which have been preserved. The Muschamp family first appears at the time of the Conqueror-Robert de Muscam being Seneschal to Gilbert de Gaunt. (Genealogists' Guide; Burke's General Armoury; Murphy's Cromwell in 1,-eland: Appendix). The issue of the marriage of George Reade founder of Rossenarra, and his wife Ursula (Cuffe), were four sons, and two daughters, all of whom left issue. (r) RICHARD READE, of Rossenarra, eldest son and heir, b. 1695, d. 3rd May, 1742, = in March, 1716, Elizabeth Thompson, only daughter and heiress of Richard Thompson, of Temple Lyon, co. Wicklow, and thus brought the Wicklow estate into the family. He was returned as member of the Old Irish Parliament for St. Canices, Kilkenny, 1733-4, but unseated on petition. (2) GEORGE READE, of Snugborough, and Lisnateige, co. Kilkenny, b. 1697, d. 1762, = Anne Hayden, daughter of William Hayden, of Kilmacoliver House, Tullaught, co. Kilkenny. (3) REV. JOSEPH READE, Rector of Kells Priory, co. Kilkenny, 1745-1750; b. at Old Rossenarra, 1698; Mat, Trinity College, Dublin, 13th Febru:iry, 1716; d. 1751 = 23rd May, 1744, Thamar Nash, daughter of John Nash, of Brinny, Upton, co. Cork, and left issue four children-George of Kilcondy, Macroom, and Grattan Hill House, co. Cork, John, Ursula, and Catherine. (Particular attention is drawn to this, from the fact that the Peerages, Lodge ( 1754), A1·chdall(1789), and Playfair'sFamily Antiquity, all give the Rev. Joseph as dying unmarried in 1732, and have thus blocked the way of incipient research). A portion of the original estate of Rossenarra, granted him by his father, the founder, under deed dated 26th February, 1727, has never left the family possession, and is now still held by his direct descendants and heirs, the families of Macmullen, King, etc. He was trustee of the main Rossenarra estate from his eldest brother Richard's death in 1742, also to the estate oi his younger brother John, who died in 1739, and his grandson, Dr. Joseph Reade (whose eldest direct male representative in the female line Mr. R. Reade Macmullen, of Dublin, now is), was author of the threatened legal proceedings in 1829-30 as to a claim against the main Rossenara estate afterwards referred to. (4) JOHN READE, of Carlafkin (Carlosky), co, Wexford, and co. Kilkenny, d. 1739, = Sarah Webb, one of the two daughters of John Webb, of Carlafkin, co, Wexford. (5) MARTHA READE= Patrick Ryan, of Cashel, co. Tipperary, son and heir of Councillor Ryan, (6) URSULA READE:::: John Scott, of Newbay, near Wexford. Amongst the many "prominent members" of the Reade family, who derive in proved and certified direct lineal descent from the above, were GEORGE READE, of Sion and Rossenarra, co. Kilkenny, an officer in Ponsonby's Regiment, resigned 1745, b. 1717, d. 1762; High Sheriff of County of Kilkenny 1749, = Elizabeth Ryan, of Kilkenny. ELIZABETH READE= Rev. Arthur Webb of Webbsborough, co. Kilkenny (who succeeded the Rev. Joseph Reade at Kells Priory), and had with other children, a son Richard, died 1839, = his first cousin, Elizabeth Reade, daughter of John Reade, on the 13th October, 1788.

* The tomb of this house of Loftus Tottenham of Ely so closely identified with the Reade family, 1ies, as before stated, beside the Cork vault, within and under the communion rails of St. Patrick s Cathedral, Dublin. In former days a sword and gauntlets, together with the cannon ball which killed Adam Lord Lisburne at Limerick were suspended over the monument, and lent an air of pathos to the surroundings, but they have now disappeared. The number of interments here is very large. t No register or entry of Colonel Agmondesham l\,1uscbamp's marriage can he found in either England or Ireland, but the fact of his '.eldest son being called Denny, propinquity of the counties of Kerry and Cork, where the parties were located, family associations, the synchronism of dates, together with the alleged destruction of papers, both in Tralee Castle and Church in 1641,

point with almost certainty, to his having married a sister of Sir Edward Denny of Tralee Castle1 co. Kerry. 1'1.P. for Tralee, :i:639, of the family of Denny of Waltham, Essex, whose ancestor was Sir Anthony Denny, Groom of the Stole to Henry VIII., and Sir Anthony's sister Joice, the wife of Sir John Cary, brother of William Cary, who married ., sister of Queen Ann Boleyn, mother of (lueen Elizabeth. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

MARTHA READE=William Morris of Waterford in 1748. (The Morris burial place is in Waterford Cathedral). WILLIAM MORRIS, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Kilkenny= Elizabeth Maitland. He added the name READF. in 1816-17, and built new Rossenarra house. WILLIAM MORRIS-READE, born 1830, of Kilbeggan, West Meath, J.P., R.M. = Jane Lake Cookes of Worcestershire. FREDERICK RICHARD MORRIS-READE of New Rossenarra, J.P., High Sheriff of Kilkenny, 1877, born 1833, died 1898. RICHARD READE, Marshall of the Admiralty, Water Bailiff of Ireland= Catherine Sigborough. MAJOR RICHARD MATTHEWS READE, born 1739 = first Phoebe Smalley of Dublin (and had a daughter Margaret, who= Wiliam Greene, of Mournehill, Worcestershire.) He= second Mary Murphy, who= second John Waring of Dublin. The Major died at Old Rossenarra in 1816, MATTHEWS READE, born 1722, died 1795 == his cousin, Margaret Matthews of Bonnetstown, co. Kilkenny, JOSEPH READE of Mount Pleasant and Castlehoyle, co. Kilkenny= Anne Mack of County Tipperary, and was father of Anne, third Viscountess Mountmorres. GEORGE READE of \,\'exford = Naomi Harrison, daughter of Henry Harrison of same place. GEORGE READE of Snugborough, co. Kilkenny= Margaret Massey of Annebrook, co. Tipperary, danghter of Hugh Massey. ANNE READE= Francis Hervey, third Viscount Mountmorres, on 24th April, 1794. GEORGE HARRISON READE of Springhill, co, Wexford, died 1833. Six times Mayor of Wexford, J.P., M.P. for the borough of Fethard, co. Wexford in the old Irish Parliament, 1798-1800. Formerly in the 92nd Highland Regiment, and Aide-de-Camp to General Johnstone=first Elizabeth Rogers, and second {in 1802) Eliza Frances Annesley, daughter of Richard Annesley, Esq.,* and Mary (Tottenham) (married 5th of December, 1766), sister of Charles Tottenham, 1st Marquis of Ely (creation 1800). Mr. Annesley was murdered by the rebels at Rower, near New Ross, on the 5th June, 1798, with great barbarity, Burke's Landed Gentry (Tottenham, 1894) ; ,'Jfusgrave's Memories qj the Rebellion in Ireland, 1798, 1802.) CAPTAIN HENRY READE of Rathbeg, co. Tipperary {brother of George Harrison Reade, ot Springhill) =married 23rd December, 1779, at Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, Frances Monroe, a niece of the· first Earl and E:ountess of Ely (creation 1771). The portraits of Mrs. Reade, and her sister the famous beauty "Dolly Monroe" (Mrs. Richardson of Rich Hill, co. Armagh), together with the Earl and Countess in a group, hang in the National Historical Portrait Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin, painted by Angelica Kauffmant in 1771. There is also a single picture of Mrs. Richardson.: ( Dictionary of National Biography, Smith, Elder & Co., London; (Kauffman); Burke's Peerage; (Ely); Catalogue National Portrait Gallery of Ireland, p. 72, No. 200; 1890).

~ There are not a few people who believe firmly, that this most unfortunate Richard Annesley, was really the 7th and last Earl of Anglesea and Annesley (former creation). tAngelica Kauffman arrived in London in 1767. In 1771 she visited Ireland for some months, and was the guest of the Earl and Countess of Ely, when she painted the above mentioned pictures. (Dictionary of National Bio~raj,hy, Smith, Elder & Co., London). Frances, zst Countess of Ely's nieces, Frances and Dorothea Monroe, were ofber household in 1769 (Vide Ulster Journal qt Arcluzology, Vol. r, part 4). The large picture-group referred to was painted in 177I.. It has been stated that Angelica Kauffman herself is the lady in it, seated at the harpsichord, with dark hair and eyes, darker even than Dolly Monroe. The following are the descriptions of Miss Kauffman, given by her biographers-golden hair-peculiar golden hair-fair complexion, blue eyes, a German. Besides this, are we to suppose the strange figure of a painter was inserted in a domestic group, posing as a member of the family of an Earl, he being invested in his state robes, and presumab]y displacing one of his nieces, the other being present. (The Earl had no offspring of his own). Surely without any actual proof, this fanciful idea cannot be entertained for a moment. This picture was found at Rathfamham Castle, supposed to have been concealed behind the wainscot of one of the rooms during the troubles of '98. t This picture formerly hung at Rathfarnham Castle, co. Dublin (Loftus Hall, co. Wexford? ?) a seat of the Marquis of Ely. A writer, 1820--8 remarks thus-" Dolly .ivionroe "(Dorothea Dorothy). Her stature was majestic, her air and demeanour were nature itself. The peculiar splen~our C?f her carriage was softened and subdued by the most affable condescension, and as sensibility gave a lustre to her eye, so discretion p;ave security to her heart, and while her charms inspired universal rapture, the authority of her innocence regulated anct restrained it. The softest roses that ever 1outh and modesty poured out in beauty glowed on the)ips of Do:othea: her cheeks wo!e th~ bl9om of Hebe, a~d .the purity of Diana was in her breast. Never did beauty appear so amiable, or virtue so adorned, as m th1s mcomparable v1rgm. (TloHtas Crotnwell Kitsoh's Notes on Excurs-i"ons through Inland, r820-8, Longman's, London.) A RECORD OF THE REDES. 137

JOHN READE of Donishall, co. Wexford= Elizabeth Bookey. REV. LOFTUS GEORGE READE, Rector of Levalley, Enniskellen, died 1872 =first Rosanna Brien of Castle Town, co. Fermanagh, and second Mary Weir of Craig Hall, Devenish. REV, JOHN READE, D.D,, LL.D., Rector ofClondalkin, co. Dublin=Bessie Brownrigg. ELIZABETH READE = Beresford Massy, great-grandson of 1st Baron Massy. REV, GEORGE HARRISON READE, Rector of Inniskean, Dundalk (the well-known antiquary),= 1st, Frances Anne Fortescue, of the Clermount house ; = 2nd, Sarah Pratt.

HENRY LOFTUS READE, of Rathbeg, co. Tipperary, ~ Maria Susannah Leman Cooper, of the Cooper-Rede family, of Ashmans, and Roos Hall, Norfolk. HENRY COOPER READE_:__ Elizabeth Lloyd, of Castle Lloyd, co. Limerick, ELIZABETH READE= Robert Brisco, of Garnareagh, co. Kilkenny, a branch of the ancient Brisco family of Crofton, Carlisle, Cumberland, intermarried with the Ponsonby family of Besborough. CATHERINE READE, youngest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Reade, Rector of Kells Priory, co. Kilkenny,= Rev. John Waring, Chancellor of St. Canices Cathedral, Kilkenny: of the Pottlerath, Springfield, and Shipton family. CATHERINE AND AMELIA (Emily Emillia) READE (daughters of George Reade, of Kilcondy estate, Macroom, and Grattan Hill House, co. Cork, and his wife, Catherine Franklin, sister of Sir John Franklin) = two brothers of the Macmullen family. (This Cork branch of the Reade family of Rossenarra is buried in the vault in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral.)

A pedigree of the foregoing has been carefully compiled, proved, and certified, but is so extensive, it is impossible to insert it here, or, indeed, also anything but an outline of the remarkable Rossenarra records. Hervey Morres, in direct descent from John Morres, of Knockagh, which John Morres was a lineal descendant of Geoffrey Fitz Robert de Mareis, otherwise Monte Maurisco, nephew (?) of Hervey de Mareis, Montemoraci, Mountmorres or Mountmaurice of Dunbrody, co, Wexford, uncle and Seneschal of Strongbow, and which Geoffrey had married Basilia, sister of Strongbow, and widow of Raymond FitzWilliam, commonly called "le gros," (another captain of the Earl of Pembroke), settled at Castle Morres, which is contiguous to Rossenarra, in 1631, and his direct descendant, Hervey 3rd Viscount Mountmorres, =Anne Reade, daughter of Joseph Reade, of Castle Hoyle, grandson of the founder of Rossenarra, on the 24th April, 1794. (Burke's Peerage, (Mountmorres). The Reades, beside the Rossenarra and Wicklow estates, owned estates and lands in the county of Tipperary, independently of Modeshill, Mohubber, Ballyvoneene, and Jamestown, acquired principally by marriage, also much property in the County Wexford. Up to 1816, the main estate had descended in the Reade family, through heirs male of Richard Reade, who died in 1742, eldest son of the founder, Then (in 1816-17), p, .,ly by a will, and partly by an arrangement with the then existing female members of this line, William Morris (who died in 1847), took possession, dismantled the old, erected a new house, and annexed the name READE, Subsequently, in 1829-30, serious question was raised to this, by the descendants of the Rev.Joseph Reade, son of the founder, and a special claim of theirs was made to the main Rossenarra property, but it was never brought to a legal decision in the Courts. Of later years the Morris-Reade family have not had possession of the estate. The name Rossenarra is very ancient. It has been spelt differently-Rosenara, Rosanara, Rossenarragh, Rosenarrow, Rossenarrowe, and Rossed-narrow, as it appears mentioned by King William Ill.'s historian Harris, taken, we presume, from official correspondence, lttters, reports, etc. (also see Index Locoriim, co. Kilkenny, British Museum: Lodge, Archdall's Peerage; Jnquisiti­ onum, in officio Rotu!orum Cance!larice Hibernia; Asservatarum Reperto1-ium, Vol. I., 1826: National Library, Dublin ; and sundry deeds, wills, and family papers). An ancient rebus on the name, takes the form of a ro3e amidst a triplet of arrows, piercing a bar. The following Arms of Reade, of Rossenarra, were never formally registered in the Irish Office of Arms, Dublin, but the seal impression on the founder's will (the earliest will preserved), is quite distinct, and no less than nine impressions appear on that of his son and heir Richard, besides numerous others on early deeds, and sundry private letters. 18 A RECORD OF THE REDES.

ARMS,-On a bend wavy, 3 shovellers or sheldrakes. CREST.-A shoveller or she!drake duck ppr. (in some recent depictions standing amidst reeds).

MOTTO.-" Utile primo." (From its enigmatical tendency, also suggesting the enquiry as to whether the shovellers or sheldrakes were not in earlier use in England than the garbs).

R. READE MACMULLEN. Dublin, rst January, 1899.

1. On the Rossenan-a estate are the ruins of Castle Howe! or Castlehoyle, the chief seat of the Walsh family, commonly cal1ed, down to the 18th century, Brenach i.e. "the Briton." In the Carew paperi; the Walsh family are stated to have ranked next after the Butlers and the Graces in ;vealth and standing in the county of Kilkenny, The chief of this family (which came over in the Strongbow era) was commonly styled "Lord of the moun1nin" or of Slievebrenach. They bad many other Castles on their great estates, which were mostly held by younger branches, (Other references)-(Tig/ies Statistics o.f the County o.f Kilkenny, R.I.A.} (Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, I824, London, Part r, Chapter r and 2).

2. Cromwell who marched in 1649-50 through what was subsequently the Rossenarra estate, battered and mutilated some of these strongholds of the Walshes and others thereon. Called Clone, (or Clonemacshaneboy), Kirrehill (or Currehill) Lisnateige or Lismateige and Hoyle Castles, notably Castlehoyle (called after Hoel the eldest son of" Philip the Welshman") of which fortress nothing remains now, but one of its circular towers and a musketry embrasure. Here the garrison were all put to the sword in March, 1650, and the bodies thrown into a pit at the foot of the Castle hill, where the bones were unearthed towards the close of the last century in making a new road past Castle Morres and Rossenarra, and on to Kilmaganny, and reburied. The locality these bones were discovered in, has always been marked by a field where the Parliamentary troops are reputed to have encamped the night previous to the engagement, and bears the name of "the merry dancing meadow II to this day. (Tighes Statistics ef the County of Kilkenny, R.I.A.; Kilkenny Arch, Journal for r86r, p. 380). (Murphy's Cromwell in Ireland}, etc. 3. Clone Castle (reputed to have belonged to both the Comerfords and Caulfields) which had stood the ravages of time for so many centuries, combined with modern vandalism of more recent years, has at length fallen a victim to the heavy gale ot December, 1897. Though only a portion remained, it was of full height, and will be sadly missed in the picturesque landscape. Kirrehill Castle was in the hands of the Butler family in r62I, and the outer walls of the keep are still intact (Butler-Kirrehill­ Fiants.fames I.) 4. The. Church of Kilmaganny, Kilmagan (vide Taxation o/ tke Diocese of Ossor,, in tke Ejiscoj,ate of Richard de Lednde, A.D, I35I, Liber Ruber: Red Book ofOssory). Kilmogan, Kilmoganny (Report on Public Records of Ireland, I8a6, Vol. I. Kilkenny, .fames I., Paras 3I and 32, r62I, Natonal Library, Dt

Nowhere up to the issue of this "Record," notwithstanding the utmost research1 can any registry be found, as to the interment of some early members of the Reade family, known to have been buried at Kilmaganny, nor even at the rebuilding ot this Church in I83r, is the slightest reference made in its annals, as to its old Reade foundation, or association (a remarkable instance of that absence of Irish rural Parochial Record, which has so hindered this memoir). Inside the building is a monument which states, however, " Here lieth the body of George Reade, who died in 173I (the founder of Rossenarra) also that of his great­ grandson Major Richard Matthews Reade, who died 18r6." This led to searching the sectional wills or deeds of the founder, and in one of them under date the 8th of January, 1730, in the Public Record Office, Dublin, duly registered, and otherwise acted upon, the following was discovered. "That the Chappel (Church} of Kilmaganny was erected and furnished solely by bim at his own expense: that it was to be used as a School house if necessary, that he leaves provision (,£50) especially for a monument to be made in the Chappel, and desires to be interred therein after five or six o'clock in the afternoon, said monument to be completed within three years after his death, to be used as a family burying place." The mural epitaph is directly over the chancel, and close to the Communion rails, hence it may be taken as conclusive that the members before referred to (as indeed was almost invariably the case with squires and their families at that period) rest beneath, some in the vault, knowledge of the entrance to which ha:a been lost, others (Ursula (Cuffe) and possibly also, one or two children who may have died prior to the building of the vault) in graves around,

close to the walls1 more especially as bones were disturbed here in opening up the floor for heating purposes. The building of the Church by Mr. Reade on a fresh site, is indicated by implication, in the Record of Visitation of Edward

Tenison, ·Bishop of Ossory, 14th July, 1731, as it, and its Churchyard 1 are stated therein to be then distinct from the burying ground, in which no doubt the ancient Church had stood an utter ruin. The tombstones and register of Kilmaganny both agree as to the date of the commencement of burials immediately outside Mr. Reade's Church, viz.: about T780. In recovering the above facts from the oblivion into which they were allowed to sink, one of the main objects of this memoir has been attained. The Morris-Reade family have a separate railed in space in the graveyard. 5. The estate of the founder of Rossenarra, at one time, extended, oft and on, ten miles from Knocktopher, towards the County Tipperary. The connecting roads from the followin~ places meet in the centre of the estate. Kilkenny city, 15½ statute miles N.E. Thomastown, g miles N.E. Carrick-on-Suir, g miles S.W. Knocktopher, 5 miles E. Callan, 7 miles N. The old mansion house of Rossenarra, certain portions of which dated back to a very remote period, and which as before stated was for generations in possession of the Butler family, has long been a ruin, and portions have been disappearing, used for one purpose or another, in the most ruthless manner. Over the greater part of the district, emigration bas left its withering evidence: roofless tenements grouped round what was once the "viUage tree i, which only remains now as a silent remembrance of the merry hamlet, and the good old days that are gone. R. R. M. ADDENDA.

DESCENT FROM CHA1'LEM.AGNE.

CHARLEMAGNE, Emperor (obit 814) = HILDEGARDE of Suabfa (obit 782). I I Louis .LE DEBON_NA!RE, E!flperor, and }= JUDITH daughter of GUELPH, Count of Bavaria. Kmg of .Aqmtame (obit 840). I ' I GISELE=EvERARD, Duke of Friou!. '------c- 1 BERENGER, King of Italy (obit 924) = BERTILE, daughter of Suppon, Duke of Spoleto (poisoned 910). l l GISELE=ADALBERT,,--' Marquis D'lvree. BERENGER II., King of Italy (obit 966) = WITTE, daughter of Boson, Duke of Tuscany. I I ADALBERT, Le Captif, King of Italy= GERBERGE, daughter of Lambert, Count of Chalons. I OTRo, 'count of Burgundy (obit 1027) =.ALIX, daughter of Richard II., Duke of Normandy. I I GUILLAUME, Le Grand, Count of' Burgundy=ETIENNE, daughMr of Raymond II., CountJ of Barcelona by (obit 1087). I Sanchia of Navarre. GrsErTk = HUMBERT IL, Count of Maurienne and Savoy (obit 1108). I I ADELAIDE= Lours VI., Le Gros, King of France (obit 11:!7). ------'I PIERRE, fourth son, and f~ther to Courtenay } = ISABELLA, daughter of Reginald De Courtenay. Emperor of Constantmop!e. I I ALLIX DE COURTENAY= AYLMER, Count of Angoulesme. I I !SABELLA (obit 1246)=(1) King JOHN, (2) HUGH X, Le Brun, of Lusignan (obit 1249). ------' WILLIAM ok VALENCE (third son), Earl of Pembroke (killed at Bayonne, 1296) = JOANE, daughter of Warine I De Montchery. ,------'- !SA.BEL ,---'=JoHNl Baron Hastings, Lord of Bergenny, Competitor for the Crown of Scotland (obib 1313). ELIZABETH HASTINGS= ROGER, Baron Grey De Ruthyn (obit 1353). I GRATIA~A GREY= Sir JOHN TALBOT of Richard's Castle • .------' A RECORD OF THE REDES.

JOHN TALBOT of Richard's Castle (obit 1375)= CATHERINE . , . (obib 1381-2). I I ELIZABETH TALBOT= Sir w ARINE AROEDEOHNE of Langhorne. I I ELINOR AROEDEOHNE=Sir WALTER Luoy of Cublington (obit 1445). I,------' ELEANOR LUOY = THOMAS HOPTON, Esq. . ____I I THOMAS HOPTON= JOANE, daughter of Walter Mortimer. I

ELIZABETH I HOPTON (she married = Sir ROGER CORBET of Moreton Corbet. (2) J obn Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester I and (3) Sir William Stanley. Both were beheaded).I _ _::.__::.,______-----~ Sir RrnHARD CORBET (obib 8 Hen. VII.)== ELIZABETH, daughter of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. ______! I ANNE CORBET= Sir THOMAS CoRNEWALL, Baron of Burford, Salop,

.------'I RIOHARD CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford =JANET, daughter of H. Wogan, Esq, of Wiston. I ·. I THOMAS CORNEWALL, Baron of Burford= KATHERINE, daughter of J obn Harley, Esq. I Sir THOMA! CoRNEWALL=ANNE, daughter of Sir Gilbert Lyttelton of Franckley. _____I

MARY CoRJEWALL ==THOMAS READE, heir to Sir Thomas Reade, Knight, of Barton Court (vide supra) whence the Reade's Baronets, and the Reades of Ipsden.

Page 3.-" John Rede, Serjeant-at-law." General Meredith Read identified this person with John of Checkendon and Stoke Marmyon, Oxon. But another account makes him grandsire to Sir Robert, the Chief Justice, who was one of the Redes of Wrangle. There is a brass to John Rede and his wife Cecilia Marmyon in Checkendon Church, and he was undoubtedly ancestor of the Boarstal line,

Pages 3 and 4.-" Edward Rede, Sheriff for Oxon and Berks." While I cannot trace any Rede of the name of Edward at this period (1438). and it seems almost certain that Edward here is an error for Edmund, i.e. of Boarstal, I do nob positively deny his existence, nor that Wyllyam of Abingdon was his son, and father of Thomas of Barton. Simply there exist8 no evidence one way or the other. Moreover, at this period we find a Sheriff for Beds and Bucks in Edward Rede. Now, in Beds there was then no family of Rede, and in Bucks none except the Boarstal line, represented by Edmund, later, i.e., 1460, Sir Edmund. This corroborates my conviction that Edward in each instance may be a clerical error for Edmund, and in the list of Sheriffs for either group of shires we miss the name of Sir Edmund, he being, further, a man of the highest social importance. Page 5.-A few miles from Danford, in Northamptonshire, lies Cottesbroke. John, an illegitimate son of Leonard Rede of Boarstal, by hia marriage with Isabella, daughter of Sir William Lane of Cottesbrooke, became possessed of that manor, which remained with bis descendants for several generations. The Cottesbrooke Reades bore the later Boarstal arms: viz., azure, three pheasants, or. Page 8.-" My sister Agnes tenne poundes." It is possible that this Agnes may have been the wife of Edmund Herman-vide p. 7-inasmuch as Herman and wife bought Barton Manor from Sir Richard Lee and reconveyed it to Thomas Rede and Anne his wife. Moreover, Sir Richard did not grant possession to Herman, who was apparently merely an intermediary, but to Thomas Rede. 'fhis indicates an intimacy or relationship between E. Herman and Thomas Rede. It is noteworthy that Walter, younger brother of Thomas Vachel!, husband of Katheryn, Thoma$ Rede's eldest daughter, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Lee. I cannot identify otherwise either Sir Richard or Sir Thomas. A RECORD OF THE REDES, 141

Page 9.-Sir Francis Englefield. John Audelett by will had bequeathed this gentleman £20. The Englefields held Englefield temp. Egbert-803. Sir Thomas Englefield was Speaker of the House of Commons circa 1500. His son was Justice of the Common Pleas, and father of Sir Francis. Page 9.-John Okeham. This, for two or more generations. is a name found on Rede and other wills. The Okehams were of Newbury and related to the Redes of Munden Furnyvale, and through them to the Lyttons. Vide p. 22, Footnote. Page 11.-Katheryn Rede. It has been asserted that her father built The Grove. Of this there is no verifica­ tion. When it was demolished by John Reade in the last century the timber was in prime condition for felling. This would corroborate indirectly the date of the house, Page 11.-Footnote. The Gentleman's Ma_qazine, August, 1897. This article contains regrettable errors, caused by following the published and MS. pedigrees. As explained in the Preface to this volume, these errors were not discovered until after a prolonged research, which had not terminated until more than a year after the publication of the article. Page 12.-I have given the first marriage of Marie Rede, viz. to Walter Hurst, of Hurst, but lack any verification thereof. I have no reason to doubt the fact, which General J. Meredith Read must have discovered when, by invitation of the late Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart., he spent several days in carefully investigating the Kirtlington Muniments. Page 13.-"Arthur James, 8th Earl and 1st Baron Fingall of Woolhampton." The family name is Plunkett, and they descend from Marie Martyn, nee Rede. Page 15.-Footnote. Queen's College held the great tithes of Beedon. Page 15.-Footnote. John Lenthall, of Bessilsleigh, married Mary, widow of Sir James (not Sir William) Stonhouse, of Amberden Hall, Essex. A deed exists relative to lands in Essex, bearing the signatures of John Lenthal!, Mary Lady Stonhouse, and John Stonhouse. John Lenthall was son of the Speaker. Page 17,-" Elizabeth Reade." The Rev. Howard Rice, Vicar of Sutton Courtney, writes : "Curiously, in the Sutton Courtney Register there is the marriage on 8th February, 1622, of Elizabeth Compton Reade to John Hall. They w.ire married at Appleford, An enigma? Page 18.-" Birchall." This apparently is identical with Bircher, a hamlet of the parish of Yarpole, which adjoins the ancient estate of the junior line of Cornewalls at Barrington. But there is more than one Bircher, or Birchall, or Birch Hall, in Herefordshire. • Page 18.-General J. Meredith Read was in error in identifying Sir Thomas Reade with the Thomas who was M.A. of Aberdeen. Vide p. 131. This Thomas accompanied King ,James from Scotland as tuto? to his sons, the Princes Henry and Charles, and his bequests demonstrate that he was of Scottish birth. Page 19.-" Bearne's Remarks-Reading." The Keeper of the House and Gardens temp. Hen. 8th was Thomas Vachel!, M.P., whose son 'l'homas, of Coley Park, married Katheryn Rede. Page 20.-The fact of the Earl of Northampton having been god-father to Sir Compton Reade rests on a statement of General Meredith Read. It seems probable, but there is no verification. Lord Northampton was Lady Spencer's brother-in-law, and Lady Spencer was Lady Reade's sister. Page 20.-" A Perfect Diurnal." The town on the "edge of Northamptonshire" is not easily specified. Lord Northampton's brigade of cavalry was then quartered in the Otmoor Vale. The nearest "town," i.e., village, would appear to be Deddington. It may haYe been Bicester. Page 21.-William Wheat. This gentleman was of Glympton. In 1697 his son was Sir Thomas Wheat, Bart. Page 21.-For " at supra " read "ut supra." Page 23. -That the Reades of Holbrook descend from the Wrangle line, I inferred from a correspondence with Colonel Revell. In the Supplementary Chapter I have been unable to append this descent-for lack of evidence. Page 25.-'rhe friendship of Sir John Brocket and Raleigh rests on tradition. There was an oak in the park at Brocket Hall, where the Princess Elizabeth was wont to sit, during her confinement at Ashridge. Page 25.-Footnote. General J. Meredith Read stated that Sir John Reade had contributed £30-about £300 of our money-to the cost of the army in Ireland, and than Oliver Cromwell in consequence bestowed on him ~ fresh patent of baronetcy. It would appear from the evidence adduced that Sir John was strongly m favour of the Protectorate, aud opposed to the Monarchy, even after the Restoration. Vide pp. 33, 34. Page 25.-Footnote. "Sir Richard Spencer's sister married the first Earl of Northampton, whence the name Compton, hereditary in the Reade family." This may be so, and the fact of Sir 'l'homas having been sent wibh despatches to the Earl lends credibility to the tradition. A RECORD OF THE REDES.

Page 25.-Footnote, The portrait of Lady North, nee Brocket, Lady Reade's half-sister, is at Wroxton. Sir John Brocket had married as his second wife the widow of Roger Fowler of Burcester (Bicesber) and Lady North was the sole issue of the marriage, Sir John Bracket's only 30n by Helen Lytton was John Salathiel, who died s.p. vit. patr, There exists a portrait of Sir John Brocket in the modern Brocket Hall. Page 27,-I cannot identify "M'ris Isabell Brocket." Either Isabell is entered in error for Elizabeth, who became wife of George Carleton, or she was a cousin-one of the Brockets of Marketseall, Page 27.-"Lyttleton." I have to apologise for this name being misspelt throughout this Chapter. It should be "Lyttelton." Inadvertently I followed General Meredith Read's spelling. The Pillaton line are Littleton. Page 28.-The problem of the "'ffln' sinister" in the Cornewall descent remains sub Judice. By Isabel of Angoulesme King John had '"Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornewall and King of the Romans, who by Sanchia of Provence had legitimate issue (1) Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornewall, who died s.p. (2) Richard, said to have been slain at the Battle of Berwick, 1296, His elder brother, Edmund, was born in 1250 and died in 1300, when the King was certified to be his cousin and next heir. It is upon this certificate that the theory of th"1a, sinister has been based, and it has been held that Richard Cornewall, who married Joan St. Owen, was an illegitimate s01;, and therefore half-brother to Richard who died in 1296. Joan was living in 1319, and her elder son, ;:;ir Edmund, died in 1354 leaving a son aged 40, so that he must have been married in 1313, and, ex hypothesi have been born not later than 1293-probably earlier. It would seem therefore that he may have been son of the legitimate Richard. The Cornewalls of Burford descended from Sir Geoffrey the second son of Joan St. Owen, who died in 1336, thereby so far as dates go confirming the theory of legitimate descent.

The following shows the descent:- KING JORN = lBABEL of Angoulesme. I I RICHARD Plantagenet (1209-79), = SAN0HIA of Provence, I I I EDMUND Earl of Cornwall (1250-1300). RICHARD= JOAN St. OWEN (1252-96). S-P~•------~I . I Sir EDMUND Sir GEOFFREY = MARGARET de Mortimer, Baroness of Burford. (died 1354, leaving a son aged 40). (died 1336). The weak point in this pedigree is the fact that Richard, who married Joan Sb. Owen, was styled De Cornewall and not Plantagenet. Richard, son of Sanchia, is alleged to have died s.p. _ Page 30.-" A Confirmation from the College of Arms." Dr. Marshall (Rouge Croix Herald) kindly referred to the original docket. It runs: "We do grant and confirm," and this, so he informs me, is the regular form o£ a grant. The grant was made to Thomas Reade of Barton, whose father, Thomas Rede, first of the Barton line, had been returned armiger. 'l'here is no evidence to show what coat of arms Thomas Rede bore, but it would appear probable that it was identical with that formally granted to his son. Page 32.-This copy of pardon was presented to General Meredith Read by the )ate Sir Henry Dashwood of Kirtlington. It is countersigned by Chief Justice Sir Mathew Hale. Page 36.-" Sir Gilbert Cornewall was an active Royalist." Thus Robinson. But Brilliana, Lady Harley, states that he was a "Parliament-man," and consented to the demolition of Stapleton Castle, lest ib shouid be garrisoned for the Kin!l", Lady Harley evidently wrote with animus, for she speaks slightingly of Sir Gilbert's lawsuit with his sisters, but I am inclined to prefer her authority to that of Robinson, Page 36,-" Legh of High Legh." This family represents the Cornewalls in the female line, and I maintain that their claim to the Barony of Burford holds good, Owing to the unhappy alienation of the Manor of Burford they cannot be deemed Barons by Tenure; but, inasmuch as the Mortimers were summoned to the House of Lords in virtue of their Baronies all and singular, the Barony of Burford formed an element, and an indissoluble one, in their patent. See Eyton's Antiquities of Salop, Vol, 4, p. 303. Sir Hugh De Mortimer's father, who was Lord of Wigmore as well as of Burford, was summoned by writ-possibly also Sir Hugh himself. Page 37.-Mr. R. Parker of the Bodleian Library, who has recently im·estigated and re-arranged the muni­ ments at Rousham Abbey, informs me that he discovered among them, dated l5bh January, 1617-18 (i.e. prior to Sir Thomas Reade being knighted), the marriage settlement of Sir Robert Dormer and Mary Reade, described as daughter of Thomas Reade, Esq., of Barton, Berks, who gave for marriage portion the sum of £5,000, equal to about £70,000 of our money. This document bears the seals of (Sir) Thomas Reade, George Cooke, and James Whibelocke. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 1 43

Page 38.-" Sir Francis Russell." I have grave doubts as to whether Margaret Reade ever married. In deference to the opinion of General Meredith Read I have stated the alleged marriage with Sir Francis, but it seems neither verifiable nor indeed probable. Page 42.-For "Roland" read Rowland. Page 48 ...... :" My nephew Bridstock Harford" was appointed executor to the will of Elizabeth Cornewall (1605-75) one of the maiden siste,·s of Sir Gilbert Cornewall, to whom also she bequeathed "my lady mother's picture from head to foot." She mentions "my sister Reade," i.e. Mary, widow of Thomas Reade. Page 52.-The marriage settlement of Sir Fairmedow Penyston with Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Compton Reade, Bart., was in the possession of the late General J. Meredith Read. Page 56.-Harriot, Lady Reade, left by will a sum of money, the interest to provide an annual dole for the poor of Shipton-under-Wychwood. Page 57.-The name Chandos came to the Hoskyns family, and through them to the Shipton Reades, from the marriage in 1689 of Theophilus Leigh of Addlestrop-ancestor of the Lords Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey­ with the Hon. Mary Brydges, daughter of the 8th Lord Chandos of Sudely. Their daughter married Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, whose son, by Catherine, sister of Sir Edwyn Stanhope, Bart. (whence the Earls of Chesterfield), was Sir Chandos Hoskyns. Bart., of Harewood Park, Herefordshire, whose daughter Jane became wife of Sir John, and mother of Sir John Chandos Reade. The Hoskyns family descends from Lord Hungerford, K.G., temp. Hen. 6th ; and the Hon. Mary Brydges was niece of the 1st Duke of Chandos, whose wife, Lady Mary Bruce, was a descendant of the Princess Mary, sister of King Henry 8th. From them descend the Dukes of Buckingham. Page 58.-The Rev. Sedborough Mayne Wade, M.A., is now Vicar of Holy Trinity, Trowbridge, WHts. Page 58.-Clara Reade had only a moiety of the manor of Oddington. Apparently the manor was divided between her sister Emily and herself, she taking the mansion. The Hon. John Talbot Rice died at Oddington House, May, 1899. Page 59.-Compton Reade matriculated at Trininy, 13th February, 1833. Page 59.-The inserted clause in the will of Sir .John Chandos Reade "except chattels real included in the devise of real estate herein-before contained" requires explanation. On the surface it would seem to exclude Shipton Court, but as to this I have no information.

Page 60.-Footnote. I find that the account here given of the proceedings commeuced by Sir Chandos Reade is inexact. The object of his action was to di~cover a deed of re-settlement, It failed, and he was compelled to pay defendants' costs.

Page 60.-Owing to the present Baronet residing abroad I was unable to obtain details of his father's and his own family. Mr. John Stanhope Reade by Lovica Walton, who died 1st May, 1899, had (1) Catherine L. Reade, born 22nd February, 1842, married (1st) John Asquith and by him had Emily Barrett. (2nd) - Lawrence. (2) Sir George Compton Reade, born 17th December, 1845, and baptised at London, Canada. (3) Christina E. Reade, born 6th March, 1848, now Mrs. Green. (4) John Walter Reade (deceased), born 14th September, 1851. (5) Charles Walter Reade, horn 14th August, 1853, and died leaving two daughters, Mahe! F., born 1885, Dora G., born 1888. (6) Maria Louisa Reade, now Mrs. Pierce, born 29th July, 1855. By his wife Melissa Sir George Compton Reade has (1) George Frankland Reade, his heir, born 22nd November, 1869=Carrie, daughter of Nathan Nixon, Esq., of Annarbor, Michigan. (2) Julia, A., born 25th December, 1870, died 1894. (3) Ellen L. Reade, born 22nd March, 1874. (4) ~sther V. Reade, born 15th January, 1876. (5) Elinor C. Reade, born 1st November, 1877. (6) Edna E. Reade, born 11th August, 1879. (7) Sonorah ,J. Reade, born 7th June, 1881. (8) Harry S. Reade, born 18th April, 1884. (9) Emary J. Reade, born 9th October, 1887, (10) Lavoyne E., born July, 1891. (11) Maud, born June, 1894. Sir George Compton Reade who is a member of the Methodist Church of Chelsea, Michigan, U.S.A., has taken a leading part in the promotion of the Temperance cause in that State.

Page60.-The following family monuments are in Shipton Church:­ In the pew on the floor to Sir Compton Reade, Bart. Sir Edward Reade, Bart. Sir Winwood Reade, Bart. Over the pew to John, 2nd Son of Sir ,John Chandos Reade, Bart. Louisa, wife of Sir John Chandos Reade, Bart, Louisa Jane, sister of Sir John Chaudos Reade, Bart., died 1837. Julia Jane Reade, of Oddin/l'ton, died 1837. Sir .John Chandos Rea

In the chancel to Sir John .Reade, died 1773, oot. 52, and to Dame Harriot, his wife, nee Barker, died 1811, oot. 85. To Sir John Reade, died 1789, with twin daughters, who died young, and his surviving children. On the west wall of the south aisle to Dame Elizabeth, widow of Sir Edward Reade, Bart., died 1730, oot. 69; and Mrs. Mary Farmer, her dau. by her 2nd husband, Henry Farmer. To Jane, wife 0f George Reade, Esq., died 1744, oot. 55, nee Nowes; and to Lieut.-General The Hon. (sic) George Reade, died 1756, ret. 69. Also to Sir Thomas Reade, M.P., died 1752, ret. 69. Page 62.-The conveyance of the Manors of Ipsden by Edward Reade to his son Philip Edward was occasioned by the hostility of a single creditor, the Vicar of Goring, who consigned him to Oxford Castle, from whence he penned a long serio-comic letter, imploring his daughter to forward his leather breeches. This, somewhat defaced, remains with others in the Ipsden Muniment Chest.

Page 62.-Footnote. See "Appointments of Manor Houses in the 17th Century," Gentleman's Magazine, June 1898, wherein is given a complete inventory of the furniture in the mansions at Ipsden, Brocket, and Dunstew, the two latter from the Kirtlington Archives, the focmer from the Ipsden Muniments.

Page 65. -" Married 1703." This I discover to be a Jalse date. Thomas Reade, of Ipsden, married Rebecca Blackall (enter~d in the Register as Blackwell), of Checkenden, Oxon, at Binfield, Berks, 3rd September, 1701 ( Letter of Rev. E. Savory, Rector of Binfield, 25th Februa1·y, 1899 ), Braziers Park is in Checkenden Parish, Paae 72.-In 1316 John de Charlton was permitted to crenelate Charlton Castle, and in 1325 to fortify his 0 mansion at Shrewsbury. The latter was aliened by Major Scott Waring circa 1801. Page 73.-H. E. 0. Green, Esq., is not Secretary to the Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes, but to the Chamber of Mines, J ohannesberg, and thus intimately associated with that illustrious statesman. His issue by Annie Scott Waring is as follows:-(1) Edward Scott Waring, born 8th January, 1887; (2) Elinore Mary Scott Waring, born 10th December, 1888; (3) Mary Theresa Scott Waring, born 13th November, 1892, died 23rd October, 1893; (4) Owen Peter Scott Waring, born 9th July, 1895. Page 73.-The Viscount de Lubersac subsequently to his marriage became Count, and besides Rene had Amelie Andree, who married Henry D. Foster, Esq., of Castle, Cornwall. Page 85.-The Walkers of Walker-on-Tyne ha,·e been surmised to be of the blood of Walcher, the Prince Bishop of Durham, one of the most powerful of English Medireval prelates. Page 86.-It transpires that the extent of acreage in Fulbrook owned by Sir John Chandos Reade was inconsiderahle, but the parish adjoins Shipton. The author was recommended for the curacy of Burford by Mr. Hervey, of Bradwell Grove, his grandfather's trustee and life-long friend, whose wife, Lady Arabella, was daughter of the Earl of Rosebery. Page 87.-Rev. H. M, Drummon,l has resigned the Vicarage of \Vorminghall and accepted a benefice in Aberdeenshire. His younger brother, the Rev. Ernest Drummond, has succeeded him in the benefice of W orminghall on the presentation of Lord Oliefden. Page 93,-For the date of the baptism at Hatfield of Mary, daughter of Sir ,John Reade, Bart., of Brocket Hall, and wife of Sir John Bucknall, I am indebted to the Re,·. Lord William Cecil, Rector of Hatfield. Her mother's name in the Register is spelt Susanna. Page 98.-For Boronet read Baronet; for Nichill read Nihill. Page 102.-Footnote. Lady Caroline Lamb burnt Lord Byron in effigy in the Park of Brocket Hall. That was in December 1812. Page 105.-So far as I am aware the knighthood of Sir Charles rests solely on the Kirtlington JJiuniments, and while I have followed General Meredith Read in affirming that his wife was one of the Russells of Strensham, I am bound to add that I have been unable to link her with the Russell pedigree, which, however, may be defective. There is an old family of Russells at Brackley, Northants, Page 115.-I believe I am correct in stating that Chief Justice Read was nominated for the Presidency on anti-slavery lines by the Western States, He retired in order to avoid dividing the party, and Abraham Lincoln was elected. Page 120.-By Agnes Cottesmore Sir Edmund Rede had no issue. His children were born to him by Catherine Greene, his second wife. !;;, Page 121.-My opinion is strongly in favour of the Wrangle descent of Chief Justice Sir Robert Rede. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 145

Page 128.-From Sir R. Bowes' MSS., Record Office, I extract this:-" The following may he accepted as a toler_ably exh:iustive list ~!the Cjans of the West and Middle Marches •... Reede~dale; Haules, Reades, Pottrn, Hedhes, &c., &c. Agam Cal. State Papers Hen. VIII. : "From the lists of inhabitants of Reedesdale, drawn out in-l528, we find that there were 70 Halles, 64 Hedlies, and 39 Redes." Again in Notes and Queries, 15th Sept,rnber, 1894, is an account of a riot at Elsdon, in which, with other border clans, the .Redes were principally concerned. It took place on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1283. Pedigree of Reed of Troughen, or Troughend: Thomas Reed in 1400 was bound to William de Swinburne for the ransom of William Mosurop, Thomas Reide in 1429 served on a jury concerning Elsdon Church. Thomas de Rede de Redesdale (vide supra) was returned by the Commissioners of 1433. Thomas Reed in 1435 swore allegiance to Henry VI. William Reed, of Troughen, in 1440 exchanged lands with Sir Humphry de Lisle, Thomas Reed in 1475 swore allegiance to Edward VI. John Reed, Laird of Troughen, in 11>52 was a Commissioner of and witness to the will of Clement of Old Town ( vide supra). Johannes Rede in the latter part of the sixteenth century was seized of Troughen. Percival Reed was rated for the Manor of Troughen in 1618, and in 1638 cited before the Consistory Court of Durham. Gabriel was Juror of (Jie Manor of Redesdale, 1646, and in 1667 settled Troughen on his son Percival. He was living in 1685. Percival, his son= Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Hall, and by her had issue Gabriel (died 1718):::; Isabella, daughter of John Ellerington. Ellerington Reed of Troughen (1714-58) =Dorothy Boutflower of Apperley (1717-1762). Ellerington Reed (2) (1743-1829) =Mary Snowdon of Prendwick, and aliened Troughen to Christopher Reed of Chipchase, December, 1764. His son Gabriel=Alexandrina, daughter of Col. Mackay of Bighouse, Caithness, and had issue Ellerington (died 1873) = Jane Hnnston of Kintradwell. His brother Robert= Nancy Anderson, and by her had Gabriel, James, Percy. Of these sons one only is alleged to be surviving, and he alone in the direct male line represents the ancient and royal house of Troughen. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

Allen, Rev. \V. Taprell, St. Briavels Vicarage, Foley, The Right Hun, The Lady Emily, Stoke Edith Arding, A. 0., Esq., Braziers Park, Wallingford. Park, Hereford. Athole, the late Dowager Duchess of, Dunkeld, N.B. Foster, Rev. Dr., Anthorp Rectory, Louth, Linc. Attwood-Mathews, Mrs., Pontrilas Court. Griffiths, Hon. Mrs., Yoxall Lodge, Burton-on­ Trent. Baildon, :w. P., Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. Groves, Charles H., Esq., M.D., 36, Inverleith Row, Baskerville, Humphrey, Esq,, Orowsley Park, Edinburgh, N.B. Henley-on-Thames. Green, Mrs., Annarbor, Michigan, U.S.A. Beaufort, The Duke of, Badminton Park. Green, Mrs. H. E. 0., Johannesberg. Bedford, The Duke of, Woburn Abbey. Blashill, Thomas, Esq., 29, Tavistock Square, W.O. Haines, Rev. J., Kinneigh Glebe, Enniskean, Cork. Burke, Ashworth P,, Esq., 59, Pall Mall, S.W. Hall, Mrs. Ellen Chorley, Congleton. Hl1milton, the Duke of. Ohamberlayne, Tankerville, Esq., Weston Grove, . Hampton, Rev. J., Warden St. Michael's, Tenbury. Charles, Mrs., 2, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Hancock, Rev. J. Harward, Woodlands Vicarage, . Chatto, A., Esq., 112, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. Harriman, W. T., Esq., 27, Upper Bedford Place, Oheatle, Dr., Burford, Oxon. w.o. Christmas, H. W., Esq., Servian Consul, 42A, Blooms- Hawtayne, Geo., Esq., Georgetown, Demarara, bury Square, W.C. W. Indies. Churchill, Rev. 0. J. S., The Schools, Shrewbury. Hedges, Mrs., Brightwell House, Wallingford. Cobham Viscount, Hagley Hall, Stourbridge. Hedges, J. Kirby, Esq., Wallingford Castle, Berks. Coleman, J., Esq., Tottenham. Hibbert, Mrs., \Vood Parks, Scariff, Clare. Cornewall, Rev. Sir George, Bart., Moccas Court. Hussey, Mrs. E. L., 24, Winchester Road, Oxford. Crawley, Mrs,, Stockwood, Luton. King, Miss Kate, Yarran, Grange Road, Gunners- Crouch, \Valter, Esq., Grafton Hou~e, Wanstead, bury, London. Essex. King, Miss Florence Naomi, ditto Dashwood, Sir George E., Bart., Kirtlington Park, Oxford. Lambert, Rev. Preheudary, Stoke Edith. Davenport, Rev. G. H., Foxley. Langrishe, Richard, Esq., F.R.S.A., Noremount, Kilkenny. Davenport, T. M., Esq., Headington Hill, Oxford. Leathley, Rev. James, The Rectory, Trillick, co. Deane, Rev. F. H., B.D., South Kilworth Rectory, Tyrone. Rugby. Lee, Rev. Dr., All fiaint's, Lambeth. De Porns, Madame La Comtesse, 14, Rue Poncelet, Paris. Legh, Colonel Henry Cornewall, 79, Onslow Gardens, s.w. De Montmorency, Rev. ,valler, M.A., Castle Morres, co. Kilkenny. Library, The, Magdalen College, Oxford, per H. A. Wilson, Esq. De Montmorency, Mrs. ditto Library, The, St. John's College, Cambridge, per Drummond, Miss A. E., Baroness Von Effinger, R. F. Scott, Esq. Schloss Wildeck, Aargau, Switzerland. Library, The, St. Michael's College, Tenbury, per Dyer, Mrs., Oakenhurst, Darleston Road, Wimbledon. Rev. Warden Hampton. Edwards, Mrs. Spencer, Trewsbnry Manor, Oiren­ Lytton-Bulwer, General, Quebec House, E. Dereham. cester. Mackenzie, Col. W. D., Fawley Court, Henley-on­ :Falkner, J. Meade, Esq., Elswick Work~, Newcastle­ Thames. on-Tyne. Mackintosh, A. M., Esq., Geddes, Nairn. firmstone, Rev. E. R., Pontri)as. Mackintosh, Dr. Frazer, Lochargill, Inverness, N.B. A RECORD OF THE REDES. 1 47

LIST OF ~ SUBSCRIBERS ( Cfontinued). Mackintosh, Shaw, Esq. Reade, the late Colonel G. E. Macmullen Major George Reade, 6th P.I. (late Reade, F. J., Esq., 35, Lincolrt's Inn l!~ields, W.C. 46th R~giment), Dera Ghazi i Khan, Punjaub. Reade, F. V., Esq., 7, Darlaston Road, Wimbledon. Macmullen, Hamilton, Esq., M.B., A'Court, Auburn, Reade, H. L., Esq., \Vest Street, Congleton, Cheshire. Victoria (Aus.). Reade, Herbert V., Esq., Ipsden House, \Vallingford. Macmullen, Mrs., ditto Reade, Hector M., Esq., 9, Grand Parade, Brighton. Macmullen, Mrs., 61, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. Reade, J. H. Loftus, Esq., Drumnachrin, Bundoran, Macmullen, Miss Kate M., ditto Donegal. Macmullen, James Carnegie, Esq., F.R.S.I., Reade, J. Mellard, Esq., Park Corner, Blundelsands. Tantallon, Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda, Victoria (Aus.). Reade, Major \V. Lloyd, R.A.M.C., Poona, Bombay, JIIIacmullen, Mrs., ditto do. Reade, Miss 0. J., 1 Victoria Villas, Forest R'lw. Macmullen, R. Reade, Esq., 17, Upper Pembroke Reade, Miss Frances, Congleton, Cheshir_e. Street, Dn hlin. Reade, Mrs., 12, Manilla Road, Clifton, Bristol. Macray, Rev. W. D., Fellow Magdalen College, Reade, Mrs. Catherine, Annabor, Michigan, U.S.A. Oxford. Reade, Mrs. J. Chorley, Glenallon, Sefton Park, Manning, P., Esq., M.A., F.S.A., New College, Liverpool. Oxford. Reade, Piercy W. S., Esq., Royal Artillery, Woolwich. Marlborough, The Duke of, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock. Reade, Rev. F. \V,, Iver Honse, Slough. Marston, Miss, 95, Onslow Gardens, S.W. Reade, Rev. G. ".\1. L., Alfington Vicarage, Ottery St. Mary, Devon. Massy, Mrs. Beresford, Hermitage, Mallow, co. Cork. Reade, Sir George Compton, Bart., 42a, Bloomsbury Mayne-\Vade, Mrs., S. Thomas Vicarage, Trowbridge. Square, W. C. Moll an, Mrs., The Rectory, Kilms.ganny, co. Kilkenny. Reade, Rev. James, The Rectory, Jordanstown, Morrison, Dr., Burghill Asylum. Belfast. Morris-Heade, Mrs., Winsteai

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS (Continued). Steele, Rev. William B., B.A., Devenish Rectory, Vachell, Dr. Herbert, Cardiff. Enniskillen, co, Fermanagh. Vachel!, Ivor, Esq., Park House, Cardiff. Stonor, 'rhe Most Reverend, The Hon. Monsignor, Archbishop of 'l'rebizond. Vachell, J. W., Esq., Tenby. Strathallan, the Viscountess, Machany, Perth. Vachell, Theodore, Esq., Glanmer, Newport, Mon. Strathnllan, Viscount, Strathallan Castle, Perth. V., W., Esq., Severn House, Sneyd Park, Bristol. Vaughan, H. F. J., Esq., 30, Edwardes Square, Thorp, Mrs., Bagnalstown, co. Carlow. Kensington, W. Trumper, Miss, 3, Netherton Road, St. Margaret's, Twickenham. Wallace, Dr., Howard Lodge, NewportRoad, Cardiff. Turner, Mrs. C. E., Budleigh Salterton. Woodrooffe, Miss Selina M., 100, Pembroke Road, Turm,r, T., Esq., 14, Rue Poncelet, Paris. Clifton. Wise, Rev. W. J., 3, Beauchamp Hill, Leamington. Vachell, Charles F., Esq., 37, Waterloo Street, Birmingham. Young, Mrs,, Kildress Rectory, Cookstown, co. Vachell, Dr., Cardiff. Tyrone.